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.

Love is a greater mystery than death.

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

Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship; you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That's when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer - that you can stay in bed for an hour in the morning and it's work time.

To have the chance of being loved we have to take a chance on being destroyed inside

Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.

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.