...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.

There is no client as scary as an innocent man.

If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?

I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true.

You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.

I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven't seen and going back to places I have seen and love.

I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system.

There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.

I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.

Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.

We've already been killed, all of us. It happened so long ago, we've forgotten it.

You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair.

husband and my family and the better half of WriterDog. Prologue

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

If I'm on holiday, I travel light, but if it is a work trip, I take everything but the kitchen sink.

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.

I just really like ants, and I really like science. I was interested and curious about the quantum world and the physics behind how it all works.

With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.

That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity.

The word of God is my vow.