Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

The novel is the most ambitious attempt to capture the human condition.

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

Sometimes the detective isn't solving the crime as much as being consumed by it.