When I started the paperback market, there were only a few good writers, now the market's loaded... you don't know which one to take.

I'm actually a softie. Tough guys get killed too early... I've got a full head of hair and don't wear eyeglasses.

I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back th…

I always wanted to have Mike Mazurki play Hammer... too bad he couldn't act.

It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not an expression or a series of expre…

Why Baroque? Because it is set in the Baroque, and it IS baroque. Why Cycle? Because I am trying to avoid the T-word ('trilogy'). In my mind this work is somet…

Happy the man with a book-length grievance - and rare. Each of these books contains one possible magazine article surrounded by more padding than an offensive …