Write the best book you possibly can, then dedicate yourself to getting people to read it.

In the world of murder and mayhem, liars are losers. And they’re usually guilty.

Driving time has always been my best thinking time.

She had opened doors for other women who might want to follow in her footsteps.

There are very good reasons why neither doctors nor detectives should work on cases too close to home. It warps perspective.

I looked at them with the kind of curiosity one reserves for snakes in a zoo.

I’m not so sure innocence exists anymore.

The first rule for getting out of holes is to stop.

A child is still one more hope Even in this careworn world.

People die. Quarrels don’t.

Distance is to love as wind is to fire. Blows out the little ones and fans the big ones.

Suicide is something that hangs around forever, dropping load after load of guilt on the living.

Like an old snakebit hound wanting his own cave under a house, I wanted to go home to lick my wounds.

Taken out of context and given a forty-degree twist, you can use the Bible to justify almost anything.

It’s tough going to bed with a stranger. There’s nothing much to talk about the next morning when you wake up.

There’s nothing like a compliment to turn any right-thinking American male into your basic monosyllabic kind of guy.

I’ve long maintained that women are born knowing things it takes men a whole lifetime to figure out. This was simply one more case in point.”

Closure isn’t everything it’s cracked up to be.

Woman had yet to be identified.

I play golf – badly.

Crosswords do not informed citizens make.

When are you going to give up and accept the inevitable? Automation and microchips are here to stay.

Who lived along the U.S. side of the border.

White-haired little old ladies (LOLs for short) are due a certain amount of respect, just on the basis of longevity, if nothing else.

I’ve had too much money to be able to tell who my friends are.

College kids seem to look younger with every passing year. It’s one of the hazards of growing older.

Bob out of his momentary.

My major form of exercise is jumping to conclusions.

Beyond a certain point, that was all a mother could do for her children – Hang around long enough to drive them crazy.

As I get older, the things I’m sure of become fewer.

I’ve been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

When I began writing, the words that inspired me were these: A writer is someone who has written today. If you want to be a writer, whats stopping you?

When you have an important story to tell, the words you need seem to come of their own accord.

Jealousy is an emotion. It doesn’t have to make sense. In fact, it usually doesn’t.

I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I’ll be able to finish it. I’ve also become more assured about my ‘voice’ as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.

A writer is someone who has written something today.

Give the girl an inch and she thinks she’s a ruler.

There are old riders and bold riders, but no old bold riders.