Expecting conceit they found courtesy. Expecting arrogance they found a man concerned with people’s thoughts and feelings.
I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.
My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.
If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
If you wrote a page a day, at the end of the year you would have a book. Whether it’s any good or not is beside the point, but you would have a book, instead of just talking about it all the time.
Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you’ve done in your life and write about that.
If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.
Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
I’ve never been on safari because I’ve got a phobia of bugs. I just don’t want things crawling on me when I’m sleeping. It’s a shame given my passion for big cats. But I really enjoy photography, so I’d love to photograph leopards in the wild some day.
I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.
All of my books have the potential to become movies, it’s just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie.
A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to write, not talk.
I love London and Los Angeles equally. I was born and brought up London and then I went to Los Angeles as a teenager to stay with my sister Joan. So I feel I belong to both.
I think I’m a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.