The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?

Any legitimate religion consists of rules of morality linked by love. That's it.

All the women in my family were superb cooks.

Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.

My aunts still try to fatten me up.

You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.

I always worried because whenever a drought struck, an accursed storm of blood always followed.

A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.

I would eat healthy at times and pig out at times. But I never had to go on a strict diet plan.

Over futile odds, and laughed at by the gods And now the final frame. Love is a losing game.

Here's the problem: we are living in a time when the act of reading is changing. The nature of a reader's attention is changing. The capacity for deep literary engagement is changing.

For me, the bulimia was about stuffing my emotions. So I stopped suppressing my feelings.

It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

You know, bad people, I've never seen bad people have angels.

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.