Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the quiet guy and making your mom happy.

Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.

When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.