I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block. When I find myself frozen-whether I'm working on a brief passage in a novel or brainstorming about an entire book-it's usually because I'm trying to shoehorn an idea into the passage or story where it has no place.

It's becoming apparent that I like bad boys. That's one of my problems. They've all been bad boys. You're one too. You're a bad boy. But, I think you're a good bad boy.

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.

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

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.

She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.