A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty until found effective.

After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time I was dissatisfied with romantic doom yet didn't see much way around it.

In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong I did a lot of comedy many dramatic films and most of all romantic roles lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.

Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.

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

I bought a selection of short romantic fiction novels studied them decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.

I'm a feminist but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.