“I'm usually too shy to write on planes because I assume that everyone ...” — Chelsea Cain Quote

“I'm usually too shy to write on planes because I assume that everyone on board is as nosy as I am and will look over my shoulder and read what I'm writing.”

“Of the paperbacks that you see at the airport, I am the most violent woman writer.”

“My husband and I were excited about having a kid - it was having a baby that had us worried. We had a lot to learn, so like good liberal arts graduates, we signed up for a class.”

“There's not a lot of arc in an actual psychopath.”

“I was obsessed with Val McDermid's Tony Hill and Carol Jordan books, delightfully twisted stuff.”

“I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.”

“The biggest mistake is to assume that another writer's successful strategy will work for you, too. Publishers' marketers - and even freelance publicists who cost mega bucks - tend to do the same basic things for all books.”

“I think a lot of people assume you need to be born into a special creative family to have a career as a writer. So I never thought it would happen for me.”

“I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred.”

“My straight friends accept I'm gay but they forget that some people don't. Even now, if I go into a party, people don't usually assume I'm gay, so you have to keep coming out. And if you say you've got a film with a gay subject matter, you can sometimes see people's eyes going, 'Oh! OK!'”

“Nobody thinks mystery writers go around killing people, but they always seem to assume singers are singing about themselves, especially if you write melancholy songs like me.”