Quotes from Joy Fielding

She forced her fingers to the television dial and turned it on, half expecting to see herself staring back. But instead, she saw some pretty blonde in her twenties delivering the news in a voice so cherry that it made her want to be sick all over again and heard not a word about a pretty brunet in her thirties who had gone missing, although a man in North Carolina reported seeing Elvis as he was emptying the trash.

The moon, now only a series of pale-white dots against a light-blue background, would fill out a grow bright, exercising its dominion over the night.

Robin smiled meekly, as if she were confronting a mythical troll and was afraid to get too close.

What were they wearing the last time you saw them?' Donna stared into the golden-flecked eyes of the moon-faced police lieutenant. He was a short man, intensely muscular

I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My dialogue is good. And my stories are really involving.

I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present.

I'm very happy being me, although sometimes I'd love to be a bird so that I could fly.