When I'm Working On A Novel Of

Ironically, I Come From A Family Of Lawyers - My Dad, My Grandfather, And Now My Oldest Son. And Some Of My Very Best Friends Are Lawyers, Though They Don't Resemble The Ones That Appear In My Novels.

All Novels Are About Crime. You'd Be Hard Pressed To Find Any Novel That Does Not Have An Element Of Crime. I Don't See Myself As A Crime Novelist, But There Are Crimes In My Books. That's The Nature Of Storytelling, If You Want To Reflect The Real World.

I Think It's Always Good For The Author To Stay A Good Cattle Prod's Distance From The Actual Moviemaking.

There's This False Notion That This Is A Regional Phenomenon, When In Fact Every State In The Union Has Hardcore Rednecks. No Exceptions.

I'd Love To See A Good Script Of One Of My Books, In These Years Of Animations And Comic Book Sequels, And Had So Many Written Over The Years, But None Quite Clicked.