Chelsea Cain Quotations

Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they create characters and then just sort of follow them around through the narrative. I think that these writers are out of their minds.

You won't make a living writing until you learn to write when you don't want to.

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

Often we don't even know what we think ourselves about people in our lives.

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

No matter what fabulous place I visit, I don't feel like I'm on vacation unless I'm dehydrated and covered with sunscreen.

Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.

I was pregnant with my daughter when I started writing my first thriller, so I guess you could blame hormones.

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

I was born in Iowa City and spent my early childhood on a hippie commune just outside of town.