I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid.

Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning.

...I don't have concrete plans for the future. I just think of success and keep a successful attitude. Success is 99 percent preparation. If you set yourself up for winning, rarely will you fail.

There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey world.

Brighton is a beautiful seaside city, but it's got a dark underbelly.

I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasn't heard of England.

The biggest qualification to be a good police officer is to have a high degree of emotional intelligence.

Death is just nature's way of making room for the less experienced.

I think that Brighton, for a crime writer, is almost like a character.

If you talk to any cop, however hardened, and say, "Has anything that's ever bothered you", they'll tell you about the death of a child that they had to deal with.

Most of us have one big idea at some point in our lives. That Eureka! moment. It comes to us all in different ways, often by chance of serendipity.

And my head told my heart"Let love grow"But my heart told my head"This time noThis time no

I wished I hadn’t majored in women filling their pockets with stones and sticking their heads into ovens. Maybe tomorrow the pinhole would widen and I would want to be a marine biologist.

maybe if people weren't so careless, then nothing would need to be caged.

There is a big difference between a tree and a wood! There is a big difference between a thinking society and an unthinking society!

You are not in love. Love is inside you longing for expression.

Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.

Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well.