Either you've got the bug, or you haven't. There are many things I'd rather be doing than writing a book.

After putting the kids to bed, I would think about what I wanted to write.

I'm not working on the Great American Novel. All I am doing, I hope, is entertaining readers.

I don't think of myself as a writer.

I didn't have the great American novel burning inside me, but I felt I could try my hand at popular fiction.

I can't retire. My readers won't let me.

When I started writing, I just hoped for a nice little paperback series.

Maybe some day they'll find me behind the computer, just bones and cobwebs.

I'm a storyteller.

I want it to be easy to read. I'm not writing exotic literature.