I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.

There weren't too many books by women that were taught in school, so I read those on my own, and the books I read were as accessible as the ones we were reading in school.

A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.

I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.

A horse herd was, in its very essence, the manifestation of the expression 'It's always something.

With any novel that you begin, you can't foresee how difficult or easy it's going to be, and you can't really prepare yourself. You just have a take it one step at a time and know that it's all right to keep going - you can always fix it.