Hatred can eat at you until there's nothing left, until you become the thing you hate.

Anticipation makes pleasure more intense

Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.

I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but high suspense writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.

I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

They said no one knew a man as well as a woman who slept with him.

If your feet are firmly planted on the grount you'll never be able to dance.

I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a high suspense writer.

Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away.

After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.

He was the one for her. She somehow knew that no one could make her feel the way did. Not if she lived for another hundred years.

Gran...I just want to say thank you for everything. I didn't realize how much you sacrificed.” “Children never do. Good Lord made it that way.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

Everything is just so much more romantic and real when it's yours and it's private.

The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.

Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.

I was born with rhythm but I don't know if - I'm not a break dancer.

If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way.

Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.

Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.