Occupation: Author Birth: June 5, 1949
His aim was the glory of God, but the glory of Philip pleased him too..
I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it ….
you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig..
I’ve worked with volunteers before,” he began. “It’s important not to… not to treat them like servants. We may feel that they are laboring to obtain ….
It was the most romantic plane ever made..
Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer..
Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back..
It was an odd thing to do, to stand in a street in the hope of seeing someone who hardly knew him, but he did not want to move..
In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescu….
Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energeti….
There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you..
The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you..
Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote..
I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it..
Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers..
She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she w….
I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next..
Proportion is the heart of beauty..
Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative..
I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any wome….
Man who betrayed you once would betray you twice..