"I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight."
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"You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough."
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"What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or assholes think they know it all."
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"If you choose to do something, do it with your utmost. And remember, expect nothing and life will be velvet."
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"The only time you're calm, you're centered, you're at peace, is when someone's trying to kill you. And that's just plain twisted."
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"I think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears."
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"Life may not be perfect, at least it offered moments that were perfect enough."
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"When I got my very first phone call that I'd hit the 'New York Times' list, I had a small rush of 'I've made it!' But the next morning, it occurred to me I didn't know what it was, so I called my agent and asked what being a 'New York Times' bestselling author really meant. He informed me that I was now a thousand pound gorilla."
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"Expect nothing and life will be velvet."
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"My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can't stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely."
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"Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott."
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"I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery writing present."
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"Youth is no excuse for sloppiness."
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"I still read romance, and I read suspense. I read them both. And part of it is, I like stories with strong characters, and I like stories where there's closure at the end. And I like stories where there's hope. That's a kind of empowerment. I think romance novels are very empowering, and I think suspense novels are, too."
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"I'm unique for a suspense author in that I don't have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime beat reporters. I didn't even know a cop when I started out. I finally figured out that I could visit prisons - I just had to be willing to make the phone calls."
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"Women cry. Men laugh. Whiners moan. Men laugh. Wimps complain. Men laugh."
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"It wasn’t that strangers couldn’t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better."
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"All I've really ever done is write since I was 17, so I don't know anything about anything. For me to do a novel, I have to talk to people who know things. And what keeps me in suspense is that I am a crime aficionado."
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"Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a disease... we do need to talk about it."
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"I don't know much about international policing and I would love to learn more. Especially in this day and age when the Internet is rapidly reducing borders and crime can happen on a larger scale than ever before. These things intrigue me."
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