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"I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house."
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"It was a pretty fierce rivalry. I'm just speaking for myself, but I think it was general through the clubs. We didn't like them, and they didn't like us."

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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."

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"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."

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"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."

"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."
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