I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.
Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.
Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.
Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.
Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.
If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.
I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.
I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.
I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages.
The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.
Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.
