When my mother talked about her brother, there was this light in her eyes. I thought, 'This is the basis of a novel.'
But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.
As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling.
There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro with their laptops, then they're not real writers. That's ridiculous.
Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them.
I'm a geek - I read fantasy novels, I play 'World of Warcraft,' I'm a massive gamer, I have 'Star Trek' outfits.
What I like in novels that I read and enjoy is interplay of theme: the mystery of how we seem to be so separate as human beings.
I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.
Everything is personal - the poems and the crime novels. I have never been involved in any murders, but there are strong autobiographical elements in each.
I think very visually, and I just never thought I had a novel in me.
I can resist anything except temptation." Ren, main character in Sherrilyn Kenyon's novel Time Untime.
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.
Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
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.
All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?
When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time.
Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.
Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.
I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.
