Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness..

I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life..

Critics should find meaningful work..

When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door..

An outline is crucial. It saves so much time. When you write suspense, you have to know where you're going because you have to drop little hints alon….

Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about….

There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get..

I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am. My clients were little people fighting big corporations, so it was a natu….

Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it..

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers..

I'm being followed so much I'm causing traffic jams..

I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right..

It's as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is always there at the end, waiting..

Stephen King reached out to me twenty-five years ago and taught me some valuable lessons. In return, I've tried to be generous with my time over the ….

If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough..

I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can ta….

Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy..

In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your st….

You live your life today, Not tommorow, and certainly not yesterday..

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious..

Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us some….