Author Insights Quotes

The things I discovered when writing 'Line of Duty' were the tools you have available to write a thriller.

My number-one website is brainpickings.org. It opens you up to different authors and gives insights into the literary world. Reading about the love letters novelist Vladimir Nabokov wrote to his wife Vera blew my mind. Fascinating.

Teaching other people to write is not something I can do. The only kind of advice I can give them will be trite by its nature. Of course, read a lot, write a lot. The kind of advice I wish I had been given is all of a practical nature, having to do with publishers and agents.

I've learned things about the craft of writing and about structuring a book and about character development and so on that I've just learned on the fly.

If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom.

Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring.

Best selling authors are always worth listening to, even if you choose to ignore their advice.

I don't really read Stephen King - I just can't read scary things because it stays with me too long - but I truly liked his memoir of the craft of writing.

Where I live, there is a group of fans who take me out to tea every year to pick my brains about what's coming up.