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"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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"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."
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"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
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"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."
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"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
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"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."
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"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."
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"A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you."
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"Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out."
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"I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood."
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"I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it."
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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."
Blood
"I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book."
Writing
"Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories."
Science
"Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them."
Books
"The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire."
Work
"The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law."
Fun
"I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge."
Poetry
"When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type."
Time
"When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level."
Work
"I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth."
Heroism
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