All of my books now come from readers' ideas.
Ann Rule

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.
Ann Rule

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

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

I always want to give the victim a voice.
Ann Rule

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.
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.
Ann Rule

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

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

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


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.
Ann Rule