Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find a voice and a visio….

Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness..

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes..

But what I've learned is, when your adrenaline is flowing, you can do a lot. I'm not very physical, but once some punks were trying to break into my ….

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories..

It's hard for me to believe that just my words on the page are enough. I ought to be out physically keeping abortion safe and legal, restoring the Fo….

If you're born lucky, you don't have to be good..

There is no frigate like a book and no harbor like a library, where those who love books but can't afford their own complete collections, or those wh….

I began wanting to create a detective who really turned the tables on that image of women, to know that you could have a sex life and not be a bad pe….

Heart surgeons do not have the world's smallest egos: when you ask them to name the world's three leading practitioners, they never can remember the ….

The day of the march, we were forbidden to go to the march site. The man I worked for, the Presbyterian minister, knew we would want to be sort of ma….

I believe that to create real-seeming characters, the writer must be willing to go on a voyage of self-exploration. It can be revealing and even pain….

When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated..

When I enter a library, when I enter the world of books, I feel the ghosts of the past on my shoulders urging me to speech. I hear Patrick Henry cry….

I look at the great poets of the Soviet Union, like Anna Akhmatova, who endured far worse then anything we've seen or hopefully that we will ever see….

I cannot find words to express the depth of my loss or outrage about what's happening to this country. I don't know if I can find the words for it, b….

I think Peter Dickinson is hands down the best stylist as a writer and the most interesting storyteller in my genre..

Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them..

Never underestimate a man's ability to underestimate a woman..

The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power..

The hope for a messiah puts too much on that one person. And you think that absolves you of personal responsibility and you don't have to act because….