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But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.
My fans want me to talk to them. And even if they want to be critical, I want to hear what they've got to say.
That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.
I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.
If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.
He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side and combed over his balding pate.
On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.
When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.
When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the other was deal with computers. And then I ended up being a computer programmer in a morgue.
America is the most violent democracy in the world. It's something that's met with great shock, horror, and mystery when I travel to other countries. They ask, Why are there so many shootings in America? Why does everyone own a gun?
I hate the term "mystery". That's not what I write. I think the Scarpetta novels are much more character-driven than an average puzzle solver. Writing should be like a pane of glass - there's another world on the other side and your vision carries you there, but you're not aware of having passed through a barrier to get there.