The nice thing about your police procedural as opposed to your classic murder mystery is that in a murder mystery you don't know who did it. Whereas in a police procedural you know, you know everything often and you're watching the police home in.

… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.

I’m not superstitious. I’m a witch. Witches aren’t superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.

Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocalypse.

I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel.