A really good day for me is to write my book for about four hours, go to the writing room for about four hours and then maybe come back to the book to finish the day for a few more hours of it.

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

You can fall in love and make love many times but there is only one bullet with your name etched on the side. And if you are lucky enough to be shot with that bullet then the wound never heals.

No Way Back is my kind of novel - a tough, taut thriller - Mofina knows the world he writes about.

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.

I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that.

You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.