When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity.

After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.

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.

Remember that all the others are more afraid than you

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

Cooking can be like foreplay.