I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

You looked at me then like you knew me, and I thought it really was Eden, and I couldn't take your eyes in because I was loving the hoof marks on your cheeks.

I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment.

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.

Birth, life, and death -- each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.