I'm a morning person because I learned to write my novels while still practicing law. I would get to the office at 6:30 a.m. and write until other people arrived around 9. Now I still do that. I start at 6:30 or 7 and I'll write until 11 then take an hour off then work until about 2 p.m. By then my brain has had enough.

I could wake up six in the morning go downstairs and record. I learned how to use ProTools and everything. Whenever I felt it I could record.

What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism.

One thing I've very quickly learned is that if you wake up every morning worrying about what's in the press you would go completely and utterly potty.

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.

Each morning sees some task begun each evening sees it close Something attempted something done has earned a night's repose.

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.

Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

As Americans we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sweat and toil of one of our citizens.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.