I was sleeping in a water bed for a couple of years, recommended by my doctor. I was never comfortable in that water bed. In the middle of the night you would hear something happening - water and bubbles. I would always think there was some intelligent life in the water bed.

They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction.

I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting.

Doubt is faith's shadow.

As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.

Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition.

Just imagine walking away from something you've started. Something you really believed would be good. I don't think I could ever do that.