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.

The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I've known in my life.

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.

Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.

When they die, no one will ever know that they lived on this earth.

When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded.

To be successfull you need friends and to be very successfull you need enemies.