So I Work Hard To Present The

For Me A Thriller Is A Very Carefully Structured Story.

People With Children And People With Their Own Business Always Pick Up A Ringing Phone.

The Outline Is 95 Percent Of The Book. Then I Sit Down And Write, And That's The Easy Part.

She Believed Not In Divine Salvation But In The Proposition That We Poor Mortals Are Fully Capable Of Saving Ourselves, If Conditions And Inclinations Are Right, And The Evidence Of This Potential Is Found In The Smallest Of Gestures, Like The Uncertain Resting Of A Large Hand On A Bony Shoulder.

I've Often Said That There's No Such Thing As Writer's Block; The Problem Is Idea Block. When I Find Myself Frozen-whether I'm Working On A Brief Passage In A Novel Or Brainstorming About An Entire Book-it's Usually Because I'm Trying To Shoehorn An Idea Into The Passage Or Story Where It Has No Place.