Occupation: Crime Writer Birth: June 9, 1956
Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head..
I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells..
The dead have never bothered me. It's the living that I fear..
Survival my only hope. Success my only revenge.
First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty..
He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side and combed over his balding pate..
Thoughts are odd misfires..
I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself..
I like to get to bed with a clear head..
We create our own worlds. We destroy our own worlds. It is that simple..
I hate the term "mystery". That's not what I write. I think the Scarpetta novels are much more character-driven than an average puzzle solver. Writin….
If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place..
Do no harm & leave the world a better place than you found it..
When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the other was deal with computers. And then I ended up ….
In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case..
And suddenly the world was filled with wooden faces and flat voices - and, you were alone..
Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air..
With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification..
I wouldn't want to donate my body for scientific study..
You have to live where you wake up, even if someone else dreamed you there..
I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power..