Tess Gerritsen

“He looked at her, and she couldn't contradict him. Nor could she offer any false reassurance. Silence, at least, was honest.”

“After twelve years of living in Hawaii, I'd gotten a serious case of 'rock fever.' I just couldn't live on an island any longer.”

“I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical.”

“I think that, for physicians who want to become writers, they have the material, the smarts, they have the logic, they know the stories; it's just a matter of being able to connect with their emotional sides - that's the key to writing good fiction.”

“'Lonesome Dove' by Larry McMurtry and 'The Poisonwood Bible' by Barbara Kingsolver have stuck with me throughout my life, and I think that says a lot about an author's writing.”

“I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.”

“I sold my first short story while I was home on maternity leave, then began working on novels. Since I was reading and enjoying romance novels at the time, the first two unpublished manuscripts I wrote were both romances. I sold my third novel, 'Call After Midnight,' to Harlequin Intrigue after submitting it unagented.”

“My father said writing was a nice hobby. He strongly encouraged my brother and me to become doctors.”