It seems the only way to write a half decent book is to worry oneself sick on an hourly basis that one is producing a complete disaster..

You say, "Something important really happened here. I really had hold of something I was visited by the muse." And that's enough to make you continue….

Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen..

It's cool that you found somebody that you trust..

People will ask me, "How do you approach writing books for young readers differently than for adults?" My answer is always: I don't change anything a….

You can always spot bright people. They are reading a book..

This is much more than your typical thriller. Tim Johnston has written a book that makes Gone Girl seem gimmicky . . . Johnston is an excellent write….

Those who cultivate letters must be supplied with the books necessary for their purpose; and until this supply is secured I shall not rest..

My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be edit….

I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoint's and things of that sort. So, I'm an old fashioned s….

Own nothing, control everything..

The whole world makes comic book movies now..

It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that….

Celebrities say the darnedest things..

I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are….

If you didn't have employers able to pay off the books and off the record safely in cash, you wouldn't have illegal immigration on nearly the scale t….

Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam..

When you're tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers so you can suddenly get a script where you have a heart attack and die. I….

Forget about Republican or Democrat - what about the kid in the middle of the country who wants to play the drums, the kid who wants to learn how to ….

I have nothing to say. And I am saying it. That's poetry..

In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life..