Out of mind as soon as out of sight.
That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.
The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.
Only bad writers think they're good.
Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.
There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it.
The poet is blithe and cheery ever, and as well as nature.
God is glorified through healing and deliverance, not through sickness and suffering.
I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream.