Unfortunately, I don't get to read nearly as much as I want because I'm always working on my own stuff, either the novels or newspaper columns.

Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special.

The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.

The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.

Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can't stand a little silence.

My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.

My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.

Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida.

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.

Unfortunately for novelists, real life is getting way too funny and far-fetched.

I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.

Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.

They’re scared of the other kind of love. The one which lacks hurt, but pains after awhile.

Sometimes we forego things not because we do not want them but because we can't afford to raise them at the moment

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

They'll remember you if you're the best reader in class-or if you throw up at lunch.

There is no happiness finally, there is no peace, there is no joy except we be right with God. The miserable Christian is wrong in his ideas as to how this rightness with God is to be obtained.

The problem is not scarcity; the problem is power.

I always like the studio best, once I got the hang of it and the control. I like it because it's complete control

Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.