The worst has happened ... it's rather liberating.

I can't exist without books.

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.

Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.

There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.