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.

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.

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

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.

Serenity within the chaos of life is there to be discovered, just look within yourself for it.

I want to get away from people, I want to kill myself.

Use the fear

The moral development of a civilization is measured by the breadth of its sense of community.

We both spend our money on things that break too easily like… people.

There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

I am what I am because early in life I decided that I would please at least myself in all things.

The world is entering another dark age. After 1985, the Maya will be so thick that it will be difficult to advance spiritually without a strong foundation.

Franklin Roosevelt had a pretty clear line. Ronald Reagan had a pretty clear line, people who rescue parties.

Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.