I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.

I'm not so interested in the act of murder as in the echoes and repercussions of the act, and how they play out over time.

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every day.-'Abou…

I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.

But there must've been a Death Star canteen, yeah? There must've been a cafeteria downstairs, in between battles, where Darth Vader could just chill and go dow…