Occasionally.. .what you have to do is go back to the beginning and see everything in a new way.

When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.

I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there.

An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.

Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.

Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight.

Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement. The ordinary world of work is closed to him - and that if he's lucky!