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"It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes."
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"To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood."

"I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive."

"I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be."

"Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to."

"One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!"

"I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'"

"Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category."
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"But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet."

"I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block."

"I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry."

"The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world."

"If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say."

"I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose."

"To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the most exciting roller coaster ride of a suspense story I can possibly think of."

"Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise."
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