A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.
“All I've really ever done is write since I was 17, so I don't know anything about anything. For me to do a novel, I have to talk to people who know things. And what keeps me in suspense is that I am a crime aficionado.”
“In other words, by finding the anomalous event, what you do is you get out ahead of activities.”