Journalism is a Darwinian process.

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.

But life isn't neat the way a story is. And if you try to pretend it is, then you just make yourself unhappy, or screw yourself over.

Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself.

The problem with my life was that it was someone else's idea.

It's not what a man does, it's what a man is that counts!

The first thing a principle does is kill somebody

Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication

I’d rather be vindictive than smart. (Solin)

The really great thing about my shoe store is that there's not one dead animal in it.

If you are worshipping God without depending on the Spirit of God, you are serving a god you do not know.

I didn't quit football because I failed a drug test, I failed a test because I was ready to quite football.