I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.

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.

God created all things. It's men who decide which ones are mistakes.

We must stay strong so we can keep going.

Should I be what I think? But I think about being so many things!

I'm working as hard as I can to get back to Packer Nation.

Evolution was in a strange mood when that creation came along.... It makes one wonder just where the plant world leaves off and the animal world begins.

I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important.

Nothing so pretty to look at as my garden!

I recently bought the box set of 'Doctor Who' and watched it back to back, Unfortunately I wasn't the one facing the TV!

Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can't reason without them.

I think we should keep the grain and export the farmers.