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

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

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

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

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