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"The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying."
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"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."
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"Writing is my pleasure and the play,where I find myself again and again."
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"Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself."
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"There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I've already chosen. And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the hand, leading me along unfathomed paths. Either way, the end result is this author's fairytale."
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"My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother."
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"Writing is a disease of the mind, which is expressed through a pen."
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"A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents."
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"What makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth..."
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"The eloquence of the pen is just as sharp as the point of a sword."
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"A writer illuminates the lights of her heart so that everyone can see themselves in the mirror of her thoughts."
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"The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying."
Writing
"The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century."
Writing
"With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then."
Chance
"There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era."
War
"I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for people to call back."
People
"I enjoy learning technical details."
Learning
"In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation."
Change
"Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers."
Movies
"An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit."
Woman
"I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have."
Events
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