In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.

When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block, the problem is idea block

Well, if there's an infinite amount of chances for something to happen, then eventually it will happen - no matter how small the likelihood.

There is an underlying timelessness in the basic conversation that is mathematics.

Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.

Fear is the enemy of logic.

Today I can do anything I put my mind to.

If you don't trust someone to look after your investments, then they shouldn't be doing the job for you.

If you fail to plan,you can plan to fail.

One is punished by the very things by which he sins.

There is no one to talk to since Mahatma Gandhi died.

I went to India as a missionary to save England from spiritual collapse.