Everything has been something before.

I'm very interested in tea. I wouldn't mind being involved in some aspect of the tea industry.

Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I enjoy the conversations that women have.

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.

I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.

As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for political guidance.

I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man; I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of many of those who have gone before me.