Otto Penzler Quotations

He knew better. He'd be found guilty, and his family would be on their own. We don't have to worry about it, ... do we? The committee wants to know why you go out.

I have news you won't like, ... But first, I have to ask why you don't come to the committee with your escape plans. It upsets them.

All right, how do I get inside the place?

I said, see if blowing the place up is possible.

I didn’t think any biography could do justice to one of the few honest-to-goodness geniuses of our time, a walking paradox who wore a cloak of complexity and elusiveness, but Lisa Rogak has done an exemplary job of it.

Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of the book and my longtime working understanding and definition of it, noir stories are bleak, existential, alienated, pessimistic tales about losers--people who are so morally challenged that they cannot help but bring about their own ruin.

Ridley Pearson also plays bass guitar and sings with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a band made up of such successful authors as Amy Tan, Stephen King, and Dave Barry-a band that, according to Barry, "plays music as well as Metallica writes novels".