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"Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them."
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"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."
"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."
"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
"I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read."
"Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion."
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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."
"I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry."
"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."
"If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say."
"I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose."
"It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes."
"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."
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