Ann Rule Quotes

United States, Writer
October 22, 1931 – July, 26, 2015.

Ann Rae Rule (née Stackhouse; October 22, 1931 – July 26, 2015) was an American author of true crime books and articles. She is best-known for The Stranger Beside Me (1980), about the serial killer Ted Bundy with whom Rule worked and who she considered a friend but was later revealed to be a murderer. Rule was also known for her book Small Sacrifices, about Oregon child murderer Diane Downs. Many of Rule's books center on murder cases that occurred in the Pacific Northwest and her adopted home state of Washington.

Also known as Author

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

Ann Rule
- Judge
- Shoes
I always want to give the victim a voice.

Ann Rule

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

Ann Rule
- People
- Work
- Lazy
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.

Ann Rule
- People
- Why
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.

Ann Rule
- People
- Up
- Mind
The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.

Ann Rule
- Why
Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials.

Ann Rule
- Hate
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.

Ann Rule
- Writing
- Done
- Book

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.

Ann Rule
- Women
I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten.

Ann Rule
- Men
- Women
- Bad
All of my books now come from readers' ideas.

Ann Rule