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.

The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge.

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

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.

My attention span is very limited, and I watch just one or two movies a year.

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

What I have found is that, in a family business structure, sometimes what is needed is a sense of discipline rather than creativity. You have to take everyones ideas and make it work. When you are dealing with money, there is a limitation on how creative you can be.