I woke up last night and thought: 'I must call somebody in my next novel Casablanca.' It's such a great name. I don't want to call anybody Fred or Jane or Susan, so when three people get into bed together, you don't know who they are.

I don't plan my books. I don't know what's going to happen. That's why I could pick up any one of my 30 books and I could continue the story on.

I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.

I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.

People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

There's always things that you know about that nobody else, because everybody's life is different. So you write about what you know. That's number one.