In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.

I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.

I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.

I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.

I have seven step-siblings from my mother's second and third marriages. My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven but I have a great sense of loyalty to all of them, especially the four from my childhood. If those people needed my help I would be there for them.

I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.

Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.