I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so... →
Ann Rule
All of my books now come from readers' ideas.
Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.
Brent Runyon
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Salman Rushdie
I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
I am not in the business of suppressing books.
I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.
I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them... →
People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.
It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.