If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.

I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.

...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.

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.

You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.

I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.

She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality.