My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run.

My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.

We've really been thinking about Richmond since day one. Only one game at a time could have took us to Richmond.

A much more effective and lasting method of facelifting than surgical technique is happy thinking, new interests and outdoor exercise.

If you write a good action sequence well in a novel, you're already writing it for film, because the only way to do it well is to use some of the same tricks. They're rhetorical, not visual, but it's the same move.

One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy - or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use - is that the second book can be a long second act to get you from book one to book three, which borrows all of its energy from the first book.