Occupation: Author Birth: October 31, 1953
Alcoholism, tobacco, drunk driving, these things will always be with us. There's always going to be a certain percentage of any population that is ad….
I try to pay attention to language. I think that as a general rule, we as writers talk too much and we should listen more. I read my dialogue out lou….
I have a life, I have a wife. I have an adult son who I'm very close to, and friends. I go hiking almost every day, four to six miles. In the summer,….
What happened with the opioid epidemic is the Mexican cartels made a very deliberate, corporate decision to undercut the price of opioids. What they ….
We need to do something about gun violence in America. But every time one of these things happen, we say the same thing, and then we don't seem to be….
I don't recognize myself. I don't know who I am anymore." And it's all fun and games until someone loses an I..
And the most dangerous place on earth - Is where you’re safe..
I think you can use fiction to get inside people's minds..
How much more money do we have to waste, how many more families have to be destroyed, how many more people have to be killed before you summon the co….
Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart..
I never think about a movie when I'm writing a book, because I think only two things could happen and both of them are bad. You write a lousy novel a….
I would prefer things to be peaceful and not have conflict..
Bookstores never seem to know where to put me on the shelves. But I do. I love my genre and I love those writers, so I am happy to be considered a cr….
I've been writing since I was six years old. It's hard to imagine stopping. I would hate to think that I've already written my best book..
My grandmother was from Guelph, Ont. I grew up playing ice hockey, I'm a massive fan. A great-uncle who was in the early days of the NHL played for t….
With a 660-page book, you don't read every sentence aloud. I am terrified for the poor guy doing the audio book. But I do because I think we hear the….
Shane Salerno and I adapted my book Savages together, and I learned a lot about adaptation. I think it's an extremely difficult thing to do; adaptati….
That sounds like Anthony Soprano. He has a point. I've said it before: if you're black and you sell dope, you end up in the big house; if you're whit….
The devil's in the details. The way I view my job is to bring the reader into a world they otherwise could not enter and let them see it through the ….
I'm a jazz guy and a Bruce Springsteen guy. So I wanted something more current, and edgier, and angrier. So I asked my kid to educate me about hip ho….
There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery..