Mary Higgins Clark

The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is…

— Mary Higgins Clark

“Hello,” he said. “Tom?” A whoop of joy. “Alice, where are you? Are you all right?” “Never better, Tom. And you?”

— Mary Higgins Clark

“Exposed to the world for what she was; numbed with worry and fear; trying to answer the question... The same question the…

— Mary Higgins Clark

When a scientist's son or daughter becomes a scientist they'll say "Wonderful! Wonderful!" So, why, in the name of God, would a…

— Mary Higgins Clark

Even though it was six o'clock, there was no sense of approaching dawn.

— Mary Higgins Clark

“and beeping, obviously sure that I was either too stupid or too deaf to hear the racket.”

— Mary Higgins Clark

Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs

— Mary Higgins Clark

Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of…

— Mary Higgins Clark

“In her room death would come as a friend, a friend with cool gentle hands . . .”

— Mary Higgins Clark

Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.

— Mary Higgins Clark

live your life as if you may lose everything.

— Mary Higgins Clark

The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the…

— Mary Higgins Clark

It's funny how, even long after you've accepted the grief of losing someone you love and truly have gotten on with your…

— Mary Higgins Clark

“Never better, Tom. And you?”

— Mary Higgins Clark

I am a natural optimist but there were times when (it seemed like) I was doing nothing but adding up on the…

— Mary Higgins Clark

“closed her computer. She felt herself breathing rapidly. I was going to be okay, she thought, if Lady Em had died in…

— Mary Higgins Clark

“The two more useless words in the English language - Don't worry.”

— Mary Higgins Clark

As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone…

— Mary Higgins Clark

A common question asked of writers is "When did you decide to become a writer?" The answer, of course, is that we…

— Mary Higgins Clark

When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.

— Mary Higgins Clark

A library is a path to the future--find yours there.

— Mary Higgins Clark

If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.

— Mary Higgins Clark

The flame of inspiration needs to be encouraged. Put a glass around that small candle and protect it from discouragement or ridicule.

— Mary Higgins Clark

I certainly understand very much what it's (like when) an expense comes up and you're trying to figure out how to pay…

— Mary Higgins Clark

Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about.

— Mary Higgins Clark