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"Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device."
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"One murder made a villain, Millions a hero."
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"Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device."
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"Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them."
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"Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide."
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"I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die."
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"Murder begins where self-defense ends."
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"The poacher's murderer was a man after Archer's own heart, for Archer also didn't like men to hurt Fire or make her acquaintance."
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"Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis."
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"In the same way he's fascinated by crosswords, the puzzle of solving the murder is what drives him on."
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"Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction."
Life


"The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story."
Friendship


"But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work."
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"I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories."
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"I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for."
Experience


"It's a long story. I'll make it short as I can."
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"Who knew, or cared, the names of the Turks who blew the roof off the Parthenon? the mullahs who had ordered the destruction of the Buddhas at Bamiyan? Yet living or dead: their acts stood. It was the worst kind of immortality. Intentionally or no: I had extinguished a light at the heart of the world."
Destruction


"It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens."
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"So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter."
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"It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate."
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