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

I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to a happy place where I can indulge my hopes, beliefs, aspirations and fantasies. It also allows me to live and breathe a topic for eighteen months while I'm researching and writing.

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

The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations.

I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love the written word.

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say.