A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I lack.

Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.

Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, You cant know where youre going if you dont know where youve been. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.

There has to be a protagonist who has to overcome challenges, and there will be a race to finish.

After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.

In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people.