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I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.

What's not realized about good novelists is that they're as competitive as good athletes. They study each other - where the other person is good and where the person is less good. Writers are like that but don't admit it.

I don't get involved in casting, budgets, location or promotion. Just the script. And, of course, the promotional tour. Which is fine with me - I'm a novelist.

You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger.

Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum.

All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.

I would love to be a Bond girl. That is on my bucket list, definitely.

I've never sought to be on an A-list. I've done my own thing and my own thing has thankfully now brought me an audience.

I've come to learn that the choices I labor over and go back and forth about and ask a million people for their opinions and make lists about those are always the wrong choices.

If you asked my kids to describe me, they'd go through a whole list of words before even thinking about Parkinson's. And honestly, I don't think about it that much either. I talk about it because it's there, but it's not my totality.

All gods are better than their reputation.

Number one, you can sell before you buy. I call it reverse e-commerce. You take a picture, you list it for sale, you sell it, you collect the revenue, then you go buy it and send it to the customer.

Make a list of all the lovers you've ever had. Warren Lasher Ed "Rubberhead" Catapano Charles Deats or Keats Alfonse Tuck it in your pocket. Leave it lying around, conspicuously. Somehow you lose it. Make "mislaid" jokes to yourself. Make another list.

Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.

Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.

I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.

The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].

I have a playlist of farts on my phone.

I used to prefer cash but I'm more and more drawn to cards because with certain cards you get the full lists which you can then pass on to your accountant so you don't have to do the whole receipt, receipt, receipt thing as it's all itemised.

That's life when you're on the D-list.

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.

A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.

He's a specialist in failure.

The novelist has more and more to say to readers who have less and less time to read: where to find the energy to engage a culture in crisis when the crisis consists in the impossibility of engaging with the culture?

The planets in their station list'ning stood.