Occupation: Author Birth: March 2, 1943
I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there..
I wish I'd known at the beginning that all I really had to do is trust myself. Everything would work out as if by magic once I actually leaned back i….
The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth..
Could you defeat a cloud, a dream, a poem?.
Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary..
To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting….
Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinemen….
Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking..
The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people..
What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thin….
Sometimes it is right to fear the dark..
I was once told by a very well-respected editor, "Category horror is about good vs. evil, that's all it is." And I thought, "That's why it's no good.….
A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off..
I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through..
When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man ha….
There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that ….
Everyone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes it's all you can do to stay consistent..
God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction..
However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience..
Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and paragraph by paragraph, s….
An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm..