I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.

A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.

Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world.

Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.

I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?

You have to know human behaviour … And the quality of your writing is absolutely capped at your understanding of human behaviour. You’ll never write above what you know about people.

The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.

No one can help you write. No one can teach you how to write.

Different people work different ways.

Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.

I like knowing where I am in action sequences if I'm supposed to.

Be a King. Dare to be Different, dare to manifest your greatness.

Magnificent beauty of nature inviting you to long for her, to love her, and then purify your heart and mind with the illuminating beauty of nature.

I uncapped the blade, flung open the door, and found myself face-to-face with a black pe

Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.

We can choose to be grateful, no matter what.

If you are psychic you can perceive that someone may love you and they can't show it. Someone may seek to harm you and they mask it.

What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

The love of money as a possession...will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.

With type as with philosophy, music and food, it is better to have a little of the best than to be swamped with the derivative, the careless, the routine.