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Thomas Perry

"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."

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"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."

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"I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to."

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"Rush has done some top-notch quality work, and we're very, very pleased with them. We really enjoy working with them. They are on time and on budget, which makes me happy."

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"You think you know her. Just wait and see the change. I'll have her trained in no time."

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"Time is always standing still, we are only changing."

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"'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it."

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"But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them."

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"Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be."

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"I don't need equal time, I am equal time!"

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"I just think we want to stay healthy, and I don't think we think about a sense of urgency. We realize how old we are, we realize we've been playing this game for a long time, but you know what? We're not done yet."

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"But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing."

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"Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities."
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"It was a lot of fun, and writing a series is comfortable. It's almost like having a secure job."
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"All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice."
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"Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck."
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"I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing."
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"Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience."
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"I do like to explore evil characters in my books."
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"There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working."
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"It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering."
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"If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas."
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