It's the very awfulness of [murder] that makes reading about it feel so cozy.

I think I have become a better writer since having children. It improves creativity, particularly because once you have children it makes you realise the story isn’t about you.

Muscle has memory: the body knows things the mind will not admit.

Love built on pain-the kind that lasts: whatever you love can be taken away from us at any moment but the loss of what we love belongs to us forever.

Writing gets easier once you know your allies and banish your enemies.

It's the very awfulness of [murder] that makes reading about it feel so cozy.