“If you actually hang out in the countryside, which I did, it's actually quite peaceful.”

“If you do outline, you have to be aware of the problems that that kind of thing can cause.”

“There are two worldviews in thriller writing: the paranoid view, like Chuck Logan's, that everything is inside a large clockwork. I like those books; they're intricate and thought out, but my view is that everything is chaotic and stupid. Chaos reigns, and civilized people do what they can to hold i...”

“As a journalist, I interviewed people, and you begin to feel different rhythms in speech, and you can use those things to help carve out a character.”