Most of my stories have some basis in fact..

Culture clash is terrific drama..

I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for peopl….

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….

We’re all good when it suits us, he used to say: that doesn’t count. It’s when you want so badly to do something wrong—when you’re about to make a fo….

Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote..

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….

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..

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….

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer..

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you..

I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing..

There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you..

I could fall for you in a heartbeat.

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic su….

I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literatur….

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century..

The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. Th….

you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig..

I might not be a good socialist, any more than I'm a good Christian, but I am one..

I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it..