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.

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.

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.

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

I was just walking around like a zombie..I really had no idea what I was doing.. But the best thing that I did do was leave and get the hell out of there. I have no regrets.

I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with.

I can only listen to what I'm working on, at the time. I can't listen to anything else because I don't want to copy it.

Better to give then to take.

The real secret about diplomats is that we're trained to say something, when there is nothing to say, and to say nothing when there is something to say.

AI systems will enable doctors to diagnose diseases and treat people better, so blocking that progress is probably one of the worst things you can do for making the world better.

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.

The simple willingness to improvise is more vital, in the long run, than research.

India was ... a country filled for the most part with people who live so close to the necessities of existence that only important things are important to them.

People are beginning to wish that the voters had been given breathometer tests when they voted in the present government.