You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.

A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.

Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.

Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

If you look at the world one way, it takes from you - it's a thief of time, energy, creative mojo. But if you look at the world another way, it gives you an endless supply of motivation.

Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.

The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.

Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.

I prefer a cluttered workspace.

I want women writers to write boldly, wildly, deeply. I want them to feel really liberated to tell the brutal truth, however they see that truth and are moved to tell it.

The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.

The mouse that fears the trap has already been trapped.

The secret to living fully is to find your passion and pursue it.

I want to affect people like a clap of thunder, to inflame their minds with the breadth of my vision, the strength of my conviction and the power of my expression.

Finding out the truth doesn't always work out for the best!

The air will always be to filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too cold. You will always have some excuse not to live your life.

Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

If the mind could cease measuring itself against the hero, the perfect, the glorious and all that, it would be what it is.

Laugh...It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings.

Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the Bible.

The beautiful thing about fear is that when you run to it, it runs away.