But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.

To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.

I went through a period in my life when I had no friends, when the phone never rang, when I thought I would die from loneliness. I know that the real blessing here isn't that I have a book published, but that I have so many people to thank.

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

The four sayings that lead to wisdom: I was wrong I'm sorry I don't know I need help

But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.

I turned down all the requests for the rights to the books, for years, mostly because they wanted the rights to the characters, and to turn it into a TV series. This would have allowed them to do anything they wanted with the characters, and that just wasn't an option for me.