there are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitionersof them

" ... What if?" Through the alchemy of those two words, something new comes into the world.

When I teach writing, I have a mantra: Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.

His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky.

One generation's idea of fast pace might be different from a later generation's.

A thriller becomes great when it carries a feeling of reality and truth.

There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them.

As long as thriller authors teach us about our world, they'll be relevant.

Your obligation as writers is to distinguish yourself. … The ultimate result should be a book that you write that no one else could have written.

At their best, thrillers not only entertain. Ideally they also reflect the society in which they are set, analyzing our fears and how we perceive the world.

A thriller must be thrilling. A mystery may or may not be a thriller depending on how much breathless emotion it has, as opposed to cerebral calculation.

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

The two fundamental skills of any leader are creativity and initiative. Creativity to find solutions and initiative to take action on them.

We want to stay on the straight and narrow path and serve God, yet we continue a practice that often pulls us in the wrong direction.

Hope is like a road in the country there was never a road but when many people walk on it the road comes into existence.

Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.

There's lower mystical kundalini and higher mystical kundalini. There are ranges within the range.

[On being the oldest living human being:] God must have forgotten me.

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.