The Greatest Sin For A Writer Is

I Got Overwhelmed By The Magnitude Of The Celebrity Culture In America. My Background Is As A News Journalist, And Newsrooms In The Us Are Shrinking - Investigation Teams Are Being Terminated Or Shrunk On Newspapers All Around The Country. The One Aspect That's Expanded Is Coverage Of Celebrity Culture.

The Greatest Sin For A Writer Is To Be Boring.

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.

From My Experience, Politicians Are Much More Uncomfortable Being Made Fun Of Than They Are Being Preached At And Screeched At - You Know, And The Soapbox Routine. They're Much More Uneasy Knowing They're A Target Of Ridicule.

Here's My Rule: You Always Want To Pay Cash For Your Own Books, Because If They Look At The Name On The Credit Card And Then They Look At The Name On The Book Jacket, Then There's This Look Of Such Profound Sympathy For You That You Had To Resort To This. It Really Is Withering.