Quotes by 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.
• 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.
• The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.
• Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.
• 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.
• 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.
• I always want to give the victim a voice.
• Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.
• 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.