I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people arent, and as a child, I really liked it.

I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.

People just make stupid mistakes. And they keep making them and keep making them, and suddenly they can't dig themselves out.

Long Gone is the type of book that should come with a warning. It’s a compulsively readable, highly addictive story. The ending will leave you breathless.

Being a Southerner, Im interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.

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.