I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.

I started writing stories in my spare time.

I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.

We’re all good when it suits us, he used to say: that doesn’t count. It’s when you want so badly to do something wrong—when you’re about to make a fortune from a dishonest deal, or kiss the lovely lips of your neighbor’s wife, or tell a lie to get yourself out of terrible trouble—that’s when you need the rules. Your integrity is like a sword, he would say: you shouldn’t wave it until you’re about to put it to the test.

He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.

But desperate people find courage.

One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.