The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.

I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.

Breathtakingly real and utterly compelling, Immoral dishes up page-turning psychological suspense while treating us lucky readers to some of the most literate and stylish writing you'll find anywhere today.

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block, the problem is idea block

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.

Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction...transcends the historical thriller.