Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to ….

My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water..

That's the thing about being a Labrador retriever - you were born for fun. Seldom was your loopy, freewheeling mind cluttered by contemplation, and n….

Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthan….

My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story..

No deliberative body is manifestly less qualified to make decisions about public education than our state Legislature. With a few shining exceptions,….

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block..

Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can't stand a little silence..

The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the si….

Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about ….

The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring..

The Thieves of Manhattan is a sly and cutting riff on the book-publishing world that is quite funny unless you happen to be an author, in which case ….

I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid..

One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb..

The TV commercials, which are endless and fairly crass, gave birth to Brock, the bad-lawyer character in Razor Girl. In real life you can find even s….

Actually it was the mark of the stupid, which is what you get for sitting under a tree during a thunderstorm..

I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking ….

Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine cr….

and in the meantime don't jump to conclusions..

I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites..

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox..