I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.

I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.

I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.