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I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.

Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.

I have a spot on the horizon that I'm trying to hit: To write and direct adult dramedies. First of all, there's really not a big market for them. Second of all, it's like cracking a diamond. You've got to do it right.

The older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.

In the past, I was always drawn to really quirky, idiosyncratic characters.

You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it.

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know.

I think of myself as a fairly logical, scientific and somewhat reserved person. Maura Isles, the Boston medical examiner who appears in five of my books, is me. Almost everything I use in describing her, from her taste in wine to her biographical data, is taken from my own family. Except I don't have a serial killer as a mother!

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.