Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

Success leaves clues, and if you sow the same seeds, youll reap the same rewards.

Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description. I think you've got to keep it short, crisp and clean

I've got more ideas for books than I'll ever be able to use in my lifetime. I'm very fortunate like that

Well, my books - I think one of the hallmarks of my thrillers is that they're based in reality.

What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction, and I don't think Islam is above criticism or fictionalization any more so than Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism or Hinduism is

Al Qaeda doesn't abide by the Geneva Conventions, so in my opinion, they should not be afforded the protections of them.