I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.

Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special.

The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.

The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.

Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can't stand a little silence.

My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.

My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.

Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida.

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.

Unfortunately for novelists, real life is getting way too funny and far-fetched.

I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

I'm looking at the ruins of my own existence and knowing, with a sickening certainty, that my old home and my old life have been truly destroyed.

Don't let anyone tell you no. Do it with conviction, do it with passion, and you'll find a way

Nothing is worth doing at all, nothing is worth writing, which does not do something which will last.

For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women.

You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.

I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women.

The most hopeful approach to peace in Ukraine is the Minsk Agreement, which includes Moscow.

Dialing down is not an option for me.

Four things are destroyed by the other fours: kindness by ingratitude, strength (of government) by crime, power by power and human love by arrogance.