"If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience."

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"If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience."

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"If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didn't see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him."

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