Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.

Ultimately, I'm in control of what's going on in the books, so I can back off, if it's scaring me too much.

[On men:] ... you never know what they're like until you get them home and take them out of their packages.

Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.

I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.