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"The height of your storm determines the height of your rainbow."

"It is in vain to try and kick the wind."

"Impossible things are really rough to do, you know."

"The only period where there is lesser competition for opportunities are during times of difficulties."

"How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast."
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"But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet."

"I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block."

"The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world."

"I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose."

"To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the most exciting roller coaster ride of a suspense story I can possibly think of."

"Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise."

"Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence."

"When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type."
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