I love smart commercial fiction. Susan Isaacs, for example and the readers who interest me are, in the preponderance, women. I am one of them; I like…

- Beth Richardson Gutcheon

I've found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person. So from the first novel I've b…

- Beth Richardson Gutcheon

I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.

- Beth Richardson Gutcheon

Well. I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many …

- Beth Richardson Gutcheon

I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being the fourth of six ch…

- Beth Richardson Gutcheon

If you're going to spend two or three years immersed in a subject, you better be deeply interested in it, or it won't be interesting to the reader.

- Beth Richardson Gutcheon

How quickly a person in pain whom you can't help becomes a reproach. And then, no doubt, a thorn.

- Beth Richardson Gutcheon