Edna Buchanan Quotes
To entrust to an editor a story over which you have labored and to which your name and reputation are attached can be like sending your daughter off for an evening with Ted Bundy.
A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.
Fear is like water. You need it. And it's good for you, as long as you have the right amount.
Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.
Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it.
You ought to try surviving one of my family reunions. It's like having a bowling alley in your brain.
I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor.
In the criminal justice system you see the worst people on their best behavior, unlike the civil system, where the best people behave at their worst.
Guns have no eyes, no friends. You never know if they'll protect your life or take it.
