If my vision was good enough, I'd be an astronaut.

My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic.

Efficiency and focus are the keys to success.

People want you to be ordinary.

I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart.

Sometimes I am so dry that people don't know I'm kidding and think I'm being serious. I enjoy this because their reactions are often funny.

I love the fact that you collaborate with your readers when you write a book.