"For a while, people couldn't understand why I'd find them so fascinating, but I'd rather go to a trial than to a Broadway play. Now that we have Court TV, they see what I mean."

"Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials."

"I always want to give the victim a voice."

"I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten."

"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 many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away."

"All of my books now come from readers' ideas."

"Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there."

"Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work."

"Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books."

"I'm publicizing the book that's done. I'm writing the book that's in the hopper, and I'm doing a little advance research on the book to come."

"The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how."