I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.

I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique.

I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.

She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble.

I'm not a hero, though. I'm just a man.

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

I've always had an interest in design, and I have always loved creating things.

For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most useful.

Nothing is easier to avoid than publicity. If one genuinely doesn't want it, one doesn't get it.

The illegality of cannabis is outrageous.

I know that a mother, no matter how impoverished or uneducated, will do anything to save her babies.

Reggae music isn't Jewish, but a lot of the ideas are.

I'm a sensitive guy, and I'm already one of my harshest critics, so if other people are hard on me, it just amplifies how hard I already am on myself.

Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization