You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why. — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work because they need to eat. And we all need to eat, but that's not the… — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
“without honor and kindness there are no rituals in the world that make any difference,” — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
“And she was attractive. She had an unusual mixture of innocence and individuality. A man who loved her might waken all kinds of passions… — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
“When you are in love, there is not much that hurts as deeply as rejection.” — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
“He actually cared. It was an odd friendship- awkward, grown slowly from beginnings of mutual contempt- but it was real nonetheless.” — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
Your own gown is most delicately suitable, both to the occasion and to yourself,' to be translated: Your gown is insipid and entirely forgettable.… — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
“Which was worse, to intrude or to pretend not to have seen, because you had no idea what to do?” — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
“The very power of evil is that it is not recognizable to us most of the time. It is not repellent at all. It… — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin. — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although… — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
We all try to forget what hurts us, it is sometimes the only way we can continue. — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
“She understood very clearly why people go mad. Sometimes it is the only way to survive the unbearable when all other flight has been… — anne perry Copy Share Image
