The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.
Hunger is the best seasoning.
An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.
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.
The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you.
For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.