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"Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device."
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"I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much."
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"You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it."
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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 think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there."
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"Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand."
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"Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time."
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"Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality."
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"Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life."
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"Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties."
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"Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive."
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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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"In the same way he's fascinated by crosswords, the puzzle of solving the murder is what drives him on."
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"I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die."
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"Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide."
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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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"Murder begins where self-defense ends."
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