My view is that popular fiction as it existed was just plain dumb, and literary fiction was either abstruse, or unbelievably boring.

The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

I read little nonfiction, but I have no boundaries about the fiction I relish. The only unfailing criterion is that I can hitch my heart to the imagined world and read on.

The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.

That's all it's meant to be, ... This is not a literary fiction. This is page-turning fiction that you take to the beach and read for diversion. If I do that, I've done my job.

If you want to be a good lair, tell people what they want to hear. (From Hot dogs under The Dakota)