Often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way into your grave.

Gray imagined Kat scolding her husband in an operatic duet that has been going on between husbands and wives for ages, that eternal mix of exasperation and love." -- James Rollins

Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.

The hope for our nation and our world lies within our ability to innovate and move forward technologically.

They wanted them to look like the Gods. God doesn't look like this.

I've mis-signed many a book Rollins or Clemens. My readers quickly become aware. Booksellers will often promote me under both names, and I do plug both at signings. Generally, the fantasy reader has no problem going into the suspense genre. It's harder for the typical suspense reader to go the other direction.

Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.