The source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what to others seems natural, and an irresistible tendency to voice op….

Writing is a constant exercise in longing..

I'm an expert. I can kill anybody and not be caught..

She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is leg….

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political a….

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses..

The success occurs in a place outside of me, and doesn't touch me on an intimate level. I live in my own skin, I have not changed greatly, I remain t….

At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the f….

My father says that fear is good; it's the body's alarm system, it warns us of danger. But sometimes danger can't be avoided, and then you have to fo….

I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans..

I went to a mystery writers conference ... and I learned a lot not only from the faculty - and in the faculty we had forensic doctors, detectives, po….

Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing..

She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through the fields wit….

He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything..

Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape....For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it ….

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them..

The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential..

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents,….

The writer of good will carries a lamp to illuminate the dark corners..

Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?.

A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot..