While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.

I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.