Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

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.

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.

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block, the problem is idea block

Many Christians are like servants with “shoes.

Okay, do not call me Aquaman. That's even worse than waterboy.

To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.

The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me.

Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.

I like a woman with priorities.

The only true satisfaction we can seek is the satisfaction of being obedient to the Lord.

We must curb ourfury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation.

Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature.

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.