Occupation: Author Birth: October 31, 1953
Ridley Scott obviously an iconic director, he's made some fantastic films. Obviously a very smart, very tasteful, thoughtful guy. So yeah, I'm in goo….
The Force deals a lot with the heroin epidemic, which I'm sorry to know people are experiencing in Canada..
There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery..
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..
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 ….
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….
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….
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'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….
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….
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….
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 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….
And the most dangerous place on earth - Is where you’re safe..
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..
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 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,….
I think you can use fiction to get inside people's minds..
I would prefer things to be peaceful and not have conflict..
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….