Writing novels is the most exciting

Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.

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 there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.

We’re flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can’t con people unless they’re greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can’t cheat an honest man.

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

Being poor is only romantic in books.