(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.

Switzerland is a land where crime is virtually unknown, yet most Swiss males are required by law to keep in their homes what amounts to a portable, personal machine gun.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so; but it's more a cry than a question.) Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.

(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.

Once you stop believing in Santa Claus, the whole world just goes downhill.

Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.