Kathy Reichs Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I do interviews and signings and readings and all of these people just hang off my every word. And then I go home and have dinner with my family and nobody lets me get a word in.”

“At first I probably seem very abrupt, but I like efficiency. There's work and there's play, and I always think: 'Let's get the work over with so we can thoroughly enjoy the play.'”

“What gives my books authenticity is that I actually do what it is I'm writing about. I think the fact that I am in the autopsy room, I go to the crime scene and I do work in the lab gives my books this flavor that otherwise they wouldn't have.”

“Murder mysteries are puzzles that are fun to resolve.”

“I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.”

“I've never lost my capacity to be shocked.”

“You'd be naive if you think you are going to retain any control once you option a character to TV.”

“One of the surprising things I hadn't expected when I decided to write crime fiction is how much you are expected to be out in front of the public. Some writers aren't comfortable with that. I don't have a problem with that.”