I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem.
You know, I mean this sincerely, you know, I'm so grateful that I get to get up in the morning and do this, you know, and write books.
I get started at 5:30 in the morning and write till 10 A.M. Then I hike six or seven miles before going back to work.
I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida.
I was a safari guide in the 1980s in Kenya.
Well, if you're writing a thriller, you have to have your character in mortal jeopardy on page 1 or it's not a thriller.
My problem is not that there are too few ideas out there. It's that there are too many.
The bridge to Coronado Island off San Diego was built because the mob had a hotel there and needed a way to get people out there.
So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.
The novelist is the vestigial bone on the body cinema. We're like the little toe that can be cut off.
I get started at 530 in the morning and write till 10 A.M. Then I hike six or seven miles before going back to work.
Producing words isn't a problem for me. And I usually write two books at a time. When one horse gets winded, you jump on the other.
A great review is great. A bad review is the worst.
There are various kinds of savagery emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery.
I would prefer things to be peaceful and not have conflict.
By any objective standard, Joaquin Guzman Loera is an evil man who has caused untold suffering for others.
Don't kid yourself The justice system is a business. It's about money.
If Trump was really looking for Mexicans to pay for the wall, he should put in a call to Sinaloa. They'd probably build it for him.
My earliest influence was Shakespeare - I read Shakespeare incessantly as a kid.
A writer who doesn't need the money gains power and is dangerous in a negotiation.
