James Rollins
James Rollins
James Rollins is a pen name of James Paul Czajkowski, an American veterinarian and writer of action-adventure/thriller, mystery, and techno-thriller novels who gave up his veterinary practice in Sacramento, California to be a full-time author. Rollins' experiences and expertise as an amateur spelunker and a certified scuba diver have provided content for some of his novels, which are often set in underground or underwater locations. Under the pen name James Clemens, he has also published fantasy novels, such as Wit'ch...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth20 August 1961
CountryUnited States of America
The hope for our nation and our world lies within our ability to innovate and move forward technologically.
I was all set to blow some crap up.
Often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way into your grave.
Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.
I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.
With two books a year, I don't have time for writer's block.
it sucks to get old...but there's always beer
The strong were always eating the weak.
Biblical references about knowledge and good and evil often get tangled up.
I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.
I do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a bit stir-crazy to be cooped up in there, so I'll grab my laptop and write somewhere else: another room in the house, out on the patio, or even Heaven-forbid, a trip to Starbucks. But I also write on the road.
Guns, grendels, or nuclear bombs; take your pick.
Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.
Gray imagined Kat scolding her husband in an operatic duet that has been going on between husbands and wives for ages, that eternal mix of exasperation and love." -- James Rollins