Occupation: Psychologist Birth: August 9, 1949
To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180).
Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even leaving aside considerations of what the reader….
Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God..
All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, there’s always a key out there that opens it..
Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest jo….
I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature..
At first, when a child meets something that scares him, the fear grows, like a wave. But when he goes into the water and swims - gets used to the wat….
Therapist’s dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it..
Just because others have it worse doesn’t mean you have to suffer in silence..
Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute..
It didn't feel difficult at the time because I was so charged up about both books. Afterward, however, I was pretty tired. In a good way, like after ….
I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of medical information an….
His experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed. (144).
Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass..
Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I try to do most of my resea….
Whatever fame a novelist my attain, it's always kind of an anonymous one. I can go anywhere, and no one knows who I am..
The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up..
The stress of grad school can drive anyone temporarily mad..
40 Words for Sorrow is brilliant-one of the finest crime novels I've ever read. Giles Blunt writes with uncommon grace, style and compassion and he p….
I spent the first few years of my life in a smallish community in Queens. Back in those early days, kids could roam the streets with relatively litt….
The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36).