Lisa Scottoline

“I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after.”

“Writing had always helped her, before. It always clarified her feelings and her thoughts, and she never felt like she could understand something fully until the very minute that she'd written about it, as if each story was one she told herself and her readers, at the same time.”

“Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.”

“I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers.”

“Jake thanked God he had a son to put to bed when he knew somewhere there was a family, right now, waiting for someone who would never come home.”

“Any middle-aged woman knows that our feet are not for the faint of heart, especially in midwinter. I wear clogs, so it's actually like my feet are wooden now.”

“You don't have to be dead to write a classic, and you don't have to be literary to be smart.”

“What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right and wrong, what's legal and illegal, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral.”