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"And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me."
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"And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it."
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"In the middle section of the book Mirabelle breaks into not one, but two houses near Belgravia Books. I had fun scoping these out - checking which windows looked least secure and figuring out how to scale the mews houses to the rear to get her inside. A man came out at one point, 'What are you doing?' he questioned me. 'The thing is, I'm writing a book,' I started with a smile. He waved me off, his hand as wide as a tennis racket. 'Everyone is writing a book, my dear,' he said. Between you and I, it's his house that MIrabelle ends up breaking into."
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"I write because, as wonderful as life is - and it is truly wonderful - it isn't enough. It does not, for example, contain dragons. I find this unsatisfactory. So I read. And I write."
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"After each of his books, the writer, for a while, feels once again that he can now die happy."
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"When you put down the good things you ought to have done and leave out the bad things you did do - well that's memoirs."
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"In writing, you must kill all your darlings."
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"A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. It's a lie if you make something up. But you make it up in the name of the truth, and then you give your heart to expressing it clearly."
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"You spill a lot of beans in historical fiction. Crime fiction is about spilling no beans at all. You spill the least beans you possibly can. So because I had already written historical fiction before I was really good at the spilling beans section, but the new skill I had to learn when I was writing Brighton Belle was difficult. I had to avoid the equivalent of shouting, "this character's a murderer! Look who did it!."
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"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."
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"Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me."
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"And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me."
Writing
"There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation."
Life
"When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom."
Work
"Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate."
People
"When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless."
Living
"I just feed off the energy of the audience."
Energy
"I tell people that I've now done one decent thing in my life. Albeit inadvertently."
Life
"I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter."
People
"I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there."
First
"I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me."
Reading
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