come and get it, you dumbass

Anticipation makes pleasure more intense

Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.

I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but high suspense writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.

Hatred can eat at you until there's nothing left, until you become the thing you hate.

I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

They said no one knew a man as well as a woman who slept with him.

If your feet are firmly planted on the grount you'll never be able to dance.

I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a high suspense writer.

Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away.

You can survive any situation with strength of spirit and soul.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

The only difference between 'propaganda' and 'education,' really, is in the point of view. The advocacy of what we believe in is education. The advocacy of what we don't believe in is propaganda.

I want to believe as many true things and as few false things as possible.

I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for all that believe myself in all I write. I often hazard sallies of my mind which I mistrust.

I guess I kind of realized that my whole life isn’t one giant press junket. I don’t have to be smiling all the time and always have the perfect answer.

The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.