24 Quotes by Gayle Lynds

From the great Jack London: “You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” What inspires you?

Ignorance is bliss, or so we're told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.

For a decade, I was a stay-at-home mom. I sent my husband to his law office, sat on PTA boards and baked cookies - great cookies. All of a sudden, I had no husband, no job, few prospects, and two small children who had grown accustomed to eating.

You don't want to become guilty of plagiarism by letting someone else's words get inadvertently mixed in with your own. If you do feel the need to paste in a block of research while you're writing, be sure to highlight the copied text in a different color so you can go back and remove or rewrite it entirely later.

'Mosaic' is about what we see and what we don't see. I learned how people can develop other senses to compensate for a missing one when I was a child. My best friend, Carol, who is profoundly deaf, saved me from an approaching car that she 'heard' when I didn't.

Be wary of cutting and pasting research nuggets directly into your manuscript.

Do you love this story? If you love it, then you've got to write it.

I've always loved spy stories. Who can resist?

If you are writing a thriller with violence in it, the ending must be violent. You are delivering a promise to your reader.