I think that people do things for a reason - that we have mental illness, that we have genetic wiring that can get triggered by certain environmental factors.

I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.

A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as a writer.

When a woman creates an unlikable character, a lot of people think it's a mistake.

I think a lot of guys who are on the internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.