I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.

If someone loves you for what you can do then it's flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them.

I'm very comfortable writing.

Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.

Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.

Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.

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.