The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.

When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

There's a test they can do to determine a baby's gender ahead of time; I think they insert a tiny photo of Leonardo DiCaprio into the uterus, and if the baby punches it, it's a boy.

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.

I'm no cook. When I want lemon on chicken, I spray it with Pledge.

It is not true that one cannot live without a woman. It is simply that one cannot have lived without one.

Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.

I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.

Come at me scrublord I'm ripped!

I don't think it's surprising we will have to look for them. I'm confident that when the Iraq Survey Group has done its work we will find what's happened to those weapons because he had them.