I can't be easy. It's not my nature. But it's my nature to love you.

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.

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.

How far you go in life and in your career is dependent on how far you can think good thoughts!

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

I've never known a lot of rich people. It's not my bag.

The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience of their own soul.

Don't bother her, don't try to talk to her, don't even look at her, or I'll fold you in half so many times you'll look like a tiny little origami werewolf.

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.

I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don't like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that.

A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.

Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland.