You know, it's not fair. Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what assholes they are.

the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.

The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books.

When they die, no one will ever know that they lived on this earth.

Life is a very thin thread and it only takes a second to snap it

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.