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"Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them."
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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."
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"I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important."
"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."
"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."
"Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming."
"I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose."
"I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block."
"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."
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