I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that.

There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions.

Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.

I'm a morning person, which is a hideous thing to be. No one likes morning people, not even other morning people.

Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.

I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.

stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing.

There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat.

Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.

Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.

Reporting is pretty vital to me. It keeps me connected to the world. A 40-hour-per-week day job may be less feasible as time goes on.

If you don't believe in yourself, who will?

Your ability to consummate Leadership or follower-ship brings fulfillment at each appointed time in life

Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee That we his evil power may bind His prisoners to free.

Who told you I was a musician?

Women must have economic and social equality with men.

Those who think only for a year, they sow food grains; those who think for a decade, they plant fruits; But those who think for generations, they prepare humans.

No one can ever overcome anything until his thoughts are creative and positive.

In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.

Of course quality is important but is it not the quality of an individual's originality that is most important?

Don't think shoot. Soon as you start thinking you miss.