I realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was!

I realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was!

The secret to being a rider in the hippodrome wasn't that you must be agile, or that you must be good with horses...It was that you must hide inside your costume a little of a killer's heart.

I was trying to make a novel about something no one wanted to read about into something they couldn't put down or look away from.

Every now and then, you find a book that feels like it was keyed to your DNA.

The way some were entrapped into lives of prostitution, the way that something like marriage could rob them of their rights.

Most written work is a conversation between the editor and the writer, that the writer essentially fulfills in public, and the editor provides the stage for that to happen as well as the prompts.