Ann Rule Quotes

• Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be – unless you have been there.

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• The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.

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• Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials.

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• Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other’s work.

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• I’m publicizing the book that’s done. I’m writing the book that’s in the hopper, and I’m doing a little advance research on the book to come.

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• I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It’s a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I’ve written are about wives who just couldn’t get away.

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• I always want to give the victim a voice.

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• I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they’re fascinating because they’re so rotten.

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• Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.

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• For a while, people couldn’t understand why I’d find them so fascinating, but I’d rather go to a trial than to a Broadway play. Now that we have Court TV, they see what I mean.

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• All of my books now come from readers’ ideas.

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Birth:	22nd October, 1935
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Writer

About

Ann Rule is an American true crime writer of such works as The Stranger Beside Me, about serial killer and former Samaritans co-worker Ted Bundy, and Small Sacrifices, about child murderer Diane Downs. Rule graduated from Coatesville High School and then attended the University of Washington. She majored in creative writing, with minors in criminology, penology and psychology. Rule worked as an officer for the Seattle Police Department. Early in her career she wrote for several publications geared for women. Beginning in 1969, she wrote for the magazine True Detective under the nom de plume "Andy Stack" when she first started writing for the magazine. Her first book was The Stranger Beside Me, which she wrote under her own name. Her next three books were written as Andy Stack. Her latest book, Practice to Deceive, about a 2003 murder on Whidbey Island, Washington, was released in October 2013.

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