ANN RULE

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.

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.

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

There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen.

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

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.

I always want to give the victim a voice.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

All of my books now come from readers' ideas.

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.

There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen.