If your feet are firmly planted on the grount you'll never be able to dance.

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.

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.

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'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even those who came from it.

Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

Young children have no sense of wonder. They bewilder well, but few things surprise them. All of it is new to young children, after all, and equally gratuitous.

To get away well is so very much! And to get away well is often so very difficult!

The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art.

There's this freshness that happens within the first few takes of the actors actually listening to each other and actually really reacting.

You're not really just a filmmaker that makes a movie good most of the time. It's everybody involved; it's a collective effort.

It doesn't matter who scores. If you have an opportunity to score, you score.

The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.

O Allah do not give me in excess lest I may be disobedient.