When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

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.

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.

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.