The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth..

With American Morons, Glen Hirshberg confidently shoulders his way through the generational pack to claim his rightful place on the summit. These sto….

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 ….

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….

On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed ba….

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understa….

Because dead people are just like you and me, they still want things. They look at us all the time, and they miss being alive. We have taste and colo….

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time..

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through..

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.….

I wish I could go back and re-write my first novel for the first time. Because I really didn't know what I was doing, and although it was published, ….

I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do..

What would be frightening about me jumping out of the bush wearing a pig mask is not the sudden surprise, not me, and not the pig mask, but that the ….

These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about ….

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might ….

From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or harmony. ..….

In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present bring to….

Each new book is a tremendous challenge..

Occasionally.. .what you have to do is go back to the beginning and see everything in a new way..

Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight..

Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the ot….