I will survive, Tracy thought. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield.

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I've visited over 90 countries thus far.

You know, it's not fair. Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what assholes they are.

The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books.

If you don't know why,I could never explain it to you.