We don't need to dumb down our stuff. And it's important to know how far we can push readers.

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.

It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If I come after a bad day, I can decide that my protagonist will die on page 100 of my novel in a 350-page story.

When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.

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.

To remain standing one often has to fall.