I grew up in London under Thatcher and that really was disgusting. A feeding frenzy.

People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.

To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.

I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.

I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach.

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

None of us know what is going to sell or what people want to read.

In my heart Im just a lucky waitress.

There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.

I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing.

You are often prevented from reaching your full potential because you hold so tightly to your past success.

It's critical to God that we think about how we live, how we spend the present time with which we're gifted each day.

And she never knew that he laid awake the whole time, his lips at her temple, his hand against her hair.Whispering her name.Whispering other words as well.

The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.

I can show you new things, have you feeling spiritual.

Real estate is my life. It is my day job, if you will. But it consumes my nights and weekends, too.

Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.

Donald [Driver] is a good guy, a righteous guy. I have no beef with him. But I have multiple sources on this; people not connected with one another who verified it.

However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.

It's like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules.