Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there.

- Ann Rule

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.

- Ann Rule

Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.

- Ann Rule

The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.

- Ann Rule

All of my books now come from readers' ideas.

- Ann Rule

I always want to give the victim a voice.

- Ann Rule

I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many…

- Ann Rule

Anfering sex for money is not a profession that glorifies women; it is a profession born of desperation, poverty, alieatioin, and loneliness.

- Ann Rule

Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials.

- Ann Rule