Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the books always wind up being "a group of strangers are thrown together by circumstance and form a society."

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

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

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.

You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.

I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.