An hour before his world exploded like a ripe tomato under a stiletto heel, Myron bit into a fresh pastry that tasted suspiciously like urinal cake..

Summer romances cometo an end. That was part of the deal. They are built like certain plants or insects, not able to survive more than one season. I ….

"So basically, that entire theory is blown to hell."Not basically," Win corrected. "Entirely.".

So basically your plan is to flail about helplessly..

Sometimes even when the book is over I dont know whos good and whos bad. Its really more interesting, I think, to write about gray characters than it….

That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight..

Kids don’t do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do. So who was to blame here?.

Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinkin….

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too..

I still try to make the "next" book my "best" book. I want to grip and move you in unexpected ways..

A trial is two narratives competing for your attention..

The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most annoying whine. The muse isn't hard to find, just….

I'm a little bit of a control freak..

I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good..

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness..

The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than g….

I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that..

Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlo….

Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place..

The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I keep it mostly in my head. I usually start writing a ne….

Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and I began to scratch my fir….