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"Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities."
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"Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used."
"I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same."
"There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant."
"Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid."
"The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese."
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"I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either."
"I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read."
"I do want to write about Jane Whitefield again, but only when I have a good enough idea - something I've figured out about her that's news and that's worth a reader's time."
"What I look for in any character, good or bad, is whether I can hear him speak. If I can imagine him that clearly, then I can write about him."
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