I Believe In The Dull Lie -

I Began Wanting To Create A Detective Who Really Turned The Tables On That Image Of Women, To Know That You Could Have A Sex Life And Not Be A Bad Person. You Could Have A Sex Life And Still Solve Your Own Problems. It Was Eight Years From When I Started Having The Fantasy That I Was Going To Create Such A Detective To When I Actually Sat Down And Came Up With V. I. Warshawski. It Was A Long, Slow Journey To Come To A Writing Voice And Do That Character.

Sometimes I Think I'm A One-trick Pony Because I'm Not Very Inventive About New Ways Of Telling Stories.

And The Fury In My Community Was Just Staggering. The Young Priests In The Parish Were Behind The Message. The Older Priests Weren't Necessarily, But They All Followed The Orders Of The Cardinal And Read The Letter. Every Sunday, 2,000 People Came To Mass At That Parish. The Following Sunday, The Attendance Dropped To 200, And Never Recovered.

Heart Surgeons Do Not Have The World's Smallest Egos: When You Ask Them To Name The World's Three Leading Practitioners, They Never Can Remember The Names Of The Other Two.

I Always Wrote; My First Story Was Published In The Magazine The American Girl When I Was 11