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"I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house."
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"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit."
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"Whenever we don't turn the ball over, we're pretty productive. When you're turning the ball over, you're cutting down on offensive opportunities."
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"That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place."
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"I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft."
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"Ultimately, it's a pretty confusing moment."
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"But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good."
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"My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick."
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"I'm sure there's going to be some material from This Is Not Going To Be Pretty. I usually use that song to just introduce myself to the audience, although the patter in between the song is always different."
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"It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away."
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"I'm pretty boring really."
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"In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict."
Relationship
"My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about."
Books
"So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot."
Work
"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."
Poetry
"In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures."
People
"I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important."
Challenge
"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."
Technology
"I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose."
Writing
"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."
Language
"Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with."
Time
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