If someone loves you for what you can do then it's flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them.

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

I am a totally public person.

I will write my way into another life.

Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.

Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.

That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.