The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process

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

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.

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

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.

To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance.