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"Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them."
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"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."
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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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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
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"The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them."
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"I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years."
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"I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an escape from the intolerable, a doorway into impossibly hospitable worlds where things had rules and could be understood; stories had been a way of learning about life without experiencing it, or perhaps of experiencing it as an eighteenth-century poisoner dealt with poisons, taking them in tiny doses, such that the poisoner could cope with ingesting things that would kill someone who was not inured to them. Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it."
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"If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher."
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"I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil."
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"Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn?"
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"What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so."
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"The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire."
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"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."
Language
"Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence."
Crime
"I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose."
Writing
"Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories."
Science
"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."
Time
"I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block."
Creativity
"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."
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"When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level."
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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."
Poetry
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