Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
Even Gone With the Wind had a shocking, cold-blooded murder.
I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.
Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.
A good editor is one of the sharpest tools a writer can have in her toolbox.
Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.