It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.

Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.

Today everything must be easy and it mustn't take time ... ready meals. Powdered hot chocolate and instant coffee ... Living takes time. We need to give each other time.

I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry.

If we don't believe in the Devil, we won't be able to recognize him when he suddenly shows up.

If you want to be seen, you have to put yourself out there - it's that simple.

Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.

I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions he had money as well.

I think age is really changing how I write and the themes that I connect with. But there are also things I'm really intrigued about.

Like snowflakes,' Franny said,'none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before

I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.

Working on 'Dexter' is like shooting one big movie every year.

Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats.

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.

Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.

I like southern girls. They talk so slow that by the time they say no, I made it already.