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Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.

In my experience victims are more concerned with helping their families understand that they are still connected to them. In some rare experiences information comes through that helps understand what happened.

I'm not interested in playing the victim. I like stories about survivors.

Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims.

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

I say let's respond as best we can to the victims and their families.

There are people who are victims in life, and I don't think they should be encouraged.

I want people to understand that tragedy and trial does not necessarily mean that you are a victim.

One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.

We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths.