My line of work makes you aware of the fragility of life. You can get up in the morning, eat your cornflakes, blow-dry your hair, go to work and end up dead.

I was a university professor, I could talk on and on and on. Give me a podium and you have to drag me off with a hook.

Many fiction writers who put the science in dont get it right.

Indecision is the key to flexibility.

An elite confederacy of nerds. My peeps

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.

I originally worked as an archaeologist in North Carolina, and when bones were found police would take them out to the bones lady at the university, and that was me.