My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever.
The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.
I had a brief theater background and loved the backstage world there’s more backstage work in television, so I saw a job advertised and applied, and got it. That was back in 1977, when getting jobs was easy.
I don’t care about the little guy. I just hate the big guy. I hate big smug people who think they can get away with things.
Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.
A handgun at two hundred feet is the same thing as crossing your fingers and making a wish.
Plan A is to hitch a ride out of here. But if they want a war, then plan B is to win it.
Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days, and then rides off into the sunset.
I always wanted to be in the world of entertainment. I just love the idea of an audience being happy with what I am doing. Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That’s how I see it.
I do a little fact checking now and then. Other than that its impact is simply that email has revolutionized communication for me, and my website has built up a community of readers, which is a lot of fun.
Full of thrills and tension – but smart and human too.
Everything you could want – action, suspense, character and setting, all floating on the easy lyricism of a fine writer at the top of his game.
The most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today.
It’s a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book?
Most actors are small, anyway – at least compared to me.
It’s always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense.
It’s always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem.
I’ve discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.
I love visiting LA. It’s an endlessly fascinating city, and is, of course, America’s entertainment capital. Each time I go, I fall in love with it all over again. That said, it’s not the sort of place I’d want to live.
I don’t need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets sold, somewhere in the world, every second.