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

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.

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.

Journalism is a Darwinian process.

You must realize that all that is necessary to make you great is already in you

It is the heart which experiences God and not the reason.

I extend my deepest gratitude to our Armed Forces and first responders serving both at home and abroad in the war against terrorism.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

Put cream and sugar on a fly and it tastes very much like a raspberry.

I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance.

The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love.

A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.

You make learning fun. Like a children’s book or after school special. Tell me about your…um, Athenian women.

The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child's mind.