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"Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them."
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"A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door."
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"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."
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"The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it."
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"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."
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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
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"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"
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"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."
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"They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along."
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"The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me."
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"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
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"I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house."
Pretty
"Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with."
Time
"Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them."
Books
"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."
Blood
"I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge."
Poetry
"Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence."
Crime
"Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories."
Life
"In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict."
Relationship
"The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law."
Fun
"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."
Technology
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