Writing novels is the most exciting.
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.
He believed nothing he was told and trusted no one.
Death is the number two fear that people have and public speaking is the first!
Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine.
I was scared. Do you know what it’s like to hold someone else’s life in your hands? It’s like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than that?
Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache.
When they die no one will ever know that once they lived.
I’m a woman. I have a right to change my mind.
Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you’re in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.
If. A two-letter word for futility.
Nothing lasts forever.
I think people throughout the world identify with my characters.
It moves at its own measured pace, for it has no reason to hurry. Tomorrow will come in its own good time.
Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.
I’m tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept.
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.
When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it’s yours.
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.