Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.

I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later.

I went to a mystery writers conference ... and I learned a lot not only from the faculty - and in the faculty we had forensic doctors, detectives, policemen, experts in guns, etc. - but from the questions of the students.

Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing.

We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.

Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it.

It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she can lose the reader in six lines, so try to keep the attention of the reader. Also, you learn to research, and to conduct an interview - to extract from the person whatever you need from that person.