I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

To find riches is a beggar’s dream, but to find love is the dream of kings.

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.

Writing novels is the most exciting

If. A two-letter word for futility.

There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating.

It moves at its own measured pace, for it has no reason to hurry. Tomorrow will come in its own good time.