I was trying to make a novel about something no one wanted to read about into something they couldn't put down or look away from..

My failures has helped me as much as my successes..

I always begin [a novel] with outlines, but they change and so do my endings and beginnings..

Watching something is nothing like doing it..

The Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself..

I am competitive, and I like to be as competitive as possible in anything I do..

I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel..

We all have to meet our match sometime or other..

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies..

If I could spend the rest of my life inside one movie it would be The Godfather, because it's the greatest movie ever made..

I invented the historical spy novel..

When you make a movie, you're spending a month of your life with someone and, down the line, you have to spend more months with them. It is this mini….

It's terrifying to have a voice right now. It's so terrifying, and it's so essential..

Business is business and politics is politics and never between shall meet..

I know what I want! And I just go for it..

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself..

There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain..

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels..

There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels..

It's all sex for me. Politics is sex. Race is sex. It's the novel. It's the novel!.

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.