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"When you want something badly enough it's amazing what you'll ignore."
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"The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition."

"There are people who are never content, never appeased, forever dissatisfied-who continually look to what escapes them, convincing themselves that if only they could attain that one desire outside of reach they would be happy. It seems almost pointless to give to these people because their eyes immediately shift from the gift to stare miserably at the portion held back. Their wants, demands, expectations, appetites are never satiated, thus they refuse to be happy. And you cannot make them so."

"For the duration of his erection: To a horny man, all women are the most beautiful woman in the world."

"Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem."

"Do you have a dream or desire that is burning a hole in your soul? Something that lights your fire and brings you simple pleasure?"

"The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master."
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"Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love."


"For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it."


"You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a novel, they know someone's made it up and they know it's not real, if you make a small mistake they will cease to imaginatively engage with the story."


"I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters in (or out) of a fix more rambunctiously than the extant records show."


"I decided to coin the term 'cosy crime noir' for Brighton Belle. That is 'cosy crime' for today's sensibilities because there is that slightly edgy element to it."


"Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it."


"As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too."


"When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time."
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