The Army was my bread and butter.

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!

I have friends who read my books in Greek.

German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case.

But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.

And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.