I often read nonfiction, and some of my ideas begin there.

One day I get to that spot where I've discovered the secret to the maze, and then I've got free running the rest of the way. It's a great feeling.

An image often propels the novel, gets it started. For me, it's an image that has a lot of emotion connected to it.

So much of writing is discovery. Sometimes I feel like a rat in a maze, trying to discover the way out. My little heart is beating, and I'm racing down a path thinking, this is the route, it will get me there, as I turn this way and then that.

Old Japanese saying, live scorpion in pants makes life interesting.

Some of the best things that have happened in my stories have happened seemingly of their own accord. The writer becomes a listener, just writing things down as they come.

I often read nonfiction, and some of my ideas begin there.