So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.

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

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

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.

His voice was everything she equated with home.

When I talked no one listened to me. But as soon as I acted I became persuasive and I no longer find anyone incredulous.

I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.

I don't want anything to take away from wrestling.

The New Heaven and New Earth are like a double Millennium, Millennium for ever!-Double your pleasure, double your fun, double your Heaven that's never done!

What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system.

You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.

In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday.

I believe in nature instead of God.

I am a pretty, useless ornament who always believed she'd have a man to take care of her.