Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Ann Rule

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Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Ann Rae Rule was an American author of true crime books and articles.

American - Writer | October 22, 1935 - July 26, 2015

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

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I always want to give the victim a voice.

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

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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 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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All of my books now come from readers' ideas.

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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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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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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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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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Anfering sex for money is not a profession that glorifies women; it is a profession born of desperation, poverty, alieatioin, and loneliness.

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There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen.

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Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Ann Rule

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