More and more books are published every year. If people were not reading them, they wouldn't be published. We are in a different moment. We are now reading electronic books or whatever else, but people are still reading, and people still need stories.

You have the health you deserve.

I am very grateful for the success, because it has given me the freedom to write without pressure, in my own way, and has enabled me to maintain my family and educate my children and grandchildren, as well as to create a Foundation to empower women and girls.

I went to a mystery writers conference ... and I learned a lot not only from the faculty - and in the faculty we had forensic doctors, detectives, policemen, experts in guns, etc. - but from the questions of the students.

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

Writing is a constant exercise in longing.

They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.