Love and pain are not the same. But sometimes it feels like they should be. Love is put to test everyday. Pain is not. Yet the two of them are inseparable because true love cannot bear separation. Michael Robotham More Quotes by Michael Robotham More Quotes From Michael Robotham Writing is what I do. It's what makes me tick. Michael Robotham makes me tick writing I wasn't always a novelist. I began my writing career as a journalist, working on an afternoon newspaper in Sydney, Australia, doing the crime beat and court reporting. Having grown up in a small country town, I felt as though I had nothing to write about. Michael Robotham nothing small writing country In the mid-nineties, I quit my job as a senior feature writer at 'The Mail' on Sunday in the U.K. and became a 'ghost writer,' collaborating with politicians, pop stars, psychologists, soldiers and sporting legends who needed help in penning their autobiographies. Michael Robotham soldiers job sunday stars I normally write in the first person, and my narrators are as real to me as any of the people I have worked with. They live and breathe in my imagination. Michael Robotham live me imagination people I've known since I was 12 that I wanted to write. My father was a teacher, and there were so many books around, it seemed natural to pick them up. Michael Robotham books write teacher father The hardest part of ghost writing other people's stories is capturing their voices so that it isn't you talking, it's them. Michael Robotham you writing talking people I'm very fortunate to be doing what I dreamed of, what I love. So few people get that opportunity. So while people continue liking what I write, I'm going to happily continue. Michael Robotham doing opportunity love people I believe that if the story is fleshed out and the characters more believable, the reader is more likely to take the journey with them. In addition, the plot can be more complex. My characters are very real to me, and I want each of my characters to be different. Michael Robotham be-different me journey believe You're not supposed to have a favourite book - it's like children. Michael Robotham like you book children I'd like to set a story in Australia, but I would need to feel confident my German and U.S. readers, for example, would stay with me. Michael Robotham confident story feel me I often joke that I could write 'War and Peace' and make it sound like Geri Halliwell wrote it. Michael Robotham joke sound war peace
