World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.

Most of my stories have some basis in fact.

What news? There's nothing to tell. I'm a nun.

But desperate people find courage.

Proportion is the heart of beauty.

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

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