Marcia Muller Quotes

We have a cottage on the Mendocino coast.

Women in mystery fiction were largely confined to little old lady snoops - amateur sleuths - who are nurses, teachers, whatever.

I don't walk the mean streets.

The human animal only sees what it wants to see.

It's very hard to get one publisher to accept an author going over to the other author's company to collaborate.

As I sat in a small room constructing what seemed to me awkward sentences and paragraphs, McCone was out having exciting adventures.

Every death diminishes us, but those that leave differences unresolved and things unsaid are the most painful of all.

I was never a good journalist, because I would make things up. A lot of people frowned on that, which is why I ended up in fiction.