A good editor is one of the sharpest tools a writer can have in her toolbox.

A good editor is one of the sharpest tools a writer can have in her toolbox.

I don't understand people who say they're bored. Look out your window.

Even Gone With the Wind had a shocking, cold-blooded murder.

I think a lot of guys who are on the internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.

I was with a real jerk after the first heartbreak, and once I did the prerequisite eating an entire cake and singing "All By Myself" in the shower, I realized that people treat you badly when you let them, and that I had to respect myself and not let anyone else treat me that way again. If someone really loves you, they are your biggest champion, not your biggest detractor.

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