Knotty theological questions are the least worrying of problems to me. Why? Because they will be resolved in the hereafter, and meanwhile they can be safely shelved.

Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid.

It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?

What she needs,' Tom said aloud 'is a husband.' Agnes said crisply, 'Well, she can't have mine.

The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying.

Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.

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.