In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process.

I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it.

Women's value has been under-recognized for far too long.

I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I’m using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I’ve visited over 90 countries thus far.

His dreams were so big and his successes so small.

There’s this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating.

What had started as idle conversation began to take concrete shape as a plan of action.

To succeed, you need friends. To really succeed, you need enemies.

If there is any secret to my success, I think it’s that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.

Old money’s motto was, If you have it, hide it. New money’s motto was, If you have it, flaunt it.