I do try to live every day as if it were my last, and it has worked for me so far.
The most important thing to realize is that everyone is capable of telling a story.
You can’t lay down laws for what people think and hope.
If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?
All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.
Money doesn’t make you happy, but it gives a zone of comfort around you.
The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren’t as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.
I’m getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
I’ve seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.
I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.
Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you’ve got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
In my stories, whenever there’s somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that’s me!
I’m mainly an airport author, and if you’re trying to take your mind off the journey, you’re not going to read ‘King Lear.’
I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication – and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
I think you’ve got to play the hand that you’re dealt and stop wishing for another hand.
I’m a great will maker. I’ve made my will every year since I was 21.
I think I’m brave because I’ve made decisions based – I hope not entirely selfishly – on what I think is right for me to do next.
I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.
I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar’s love of learning for its own sake.