The only way to build a fan base is to have a lot of material out there for readers to find. You can't manufacture a fan base. You create it, one story at a time.

Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence.

Perhaps true faith is a form of insanity.

The worst situations in the world always start with the words, 'trust me.'

I am one of the heretics who believes that art must be enjoyed first and analyzed later.

Our subconscious works in metaphors, stories, and word play. That's why a particular story or movie may mean more to some people than to others. Have you considered why you quest for this tale now?

Write. Publish. Repeat.

[Discipline i]t’s the ability to overcome the urge to grab the bright and shiny and interesting to finish what you’ve started.

It is wise to know God forgives sins, if only turn to walk in the light.

I think there would be less torture with a warrant requirement than without one.

I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.

Memo to young journalists: Democratic victories are always ascribed to hope; Republican ones to rage.

I find the scientific mind horrendous. All those brains and not a moral imperative between them.

In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment.

I have nothing against bombastic music, but when it comes to making albums, I'd prefer to make music that has a sort of vulnerable subtlety to it.

She looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done." "That's as it may be," he replied. "The fact is, that you did it.

I tell young people to reach for the stars. And I can't think of a greater high than you could possibly get than by inventing something.

It's kind of a miracle to think that a device in your pocket can play pretty much any song that the world has ever created.