The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.
I think that’s because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring the customs and attitudes of the county I’m using for their setting.
I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.
What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.
I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader.
Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.
Surely you’ve been sent from the heavens to teach us mortals what beauty is.
The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I’ve known in my life.
Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn’t enough for me. Can you understand that?
She undressed slowly, dreamily, and when she was naked, she selected a bright red negligee to wear so that the blood would not show.
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.
I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor – which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.
Life is a very thin thread and it only takes a second to snap it.
Womens value has been under-recognized for far too long.
The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle’s wings are silken, but its claws are made of steel.
I will survive, Tracy thought. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield.
The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books.
Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the genie been a gorgeous woman, so that idea really appealed to me, and I created the series based on that premise.
To find riches is a beggar’s dream, but to find love is the dream of kings.
Death is the number two fear that people have and public speaking is the first!