Ann Rule quotes:

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Anfering sex for money is not a profession that glorifies women; it is a profession born of desperation, poverty, alieatioin, and loneliness.

All of my books now come from readers' ideas.

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

I always want to give the victim a voice.

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

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