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We don't have enough time to move fast
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When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.
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Predate your telling me, T.T.
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But then someday the truth would come out. It always did. Repress what you will, someday the truth comes out.
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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.
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The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.
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Too much screaming in Congress. Too much screaming everywhere.
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I'm not your proverbial worst nightmare because nightmares aren't real and I am more real than anybody wants to admit.
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The creatures I had seen were not men, had never been men. They were animals - humanised animals - triumphs of vivisection.
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They look like wounds, not tattoos.
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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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So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.
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Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.
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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.
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I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.
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I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.
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Inspiring isn't the same as plotting.
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We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh how we squander those moments.
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I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.
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I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.
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My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.
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WHEN YOU MOVE THEY CAN'T GETCHA 'A
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Pulaski said, "Even psycho killers need to do home repairs. Probably it's not related to the case.
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Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.
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Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
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And if it took awhile, that means she was in pain for a long time.
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For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.
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The pain, you know. It's one hell of a way to die.
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Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.
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eager' and 'anxious' aren't the same, or how 'disinterested' doesn't mean 'uninterested.
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Rule one: Write about settings you're familiar with.
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The greatest single threat to an investigator is unfamiliarity with his environment.
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People with children and people with their own business always pick up a ringing phone.
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I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
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God don't give out certain.
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was mildly surprised to see) and in the smallest
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I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block.
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And life changes. Maybe just a little, maybe a lot. And at some point, it just isn't worth the fight to fix it.
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Yield and you need not break. Bent, you can straighten. Emptied, you can hold. Torn, you can mend.
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I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.
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What'd he do? Your stepfather?
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But it works that way if it works.
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little too undistinguished, a little
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I'm really not the cold fish everyone thinks I am.
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Always thinking. This was one of the reasons he loved her.
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I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.
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Time transcends morality
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His rules were unencumbered by my constraints - the Constitution and the laws promulgated thereunder. Still,
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The seat of power in the twenty-first century is information, not oil or geography.
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That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone.
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Boys groped, boys dissed, boys put you down. But it was the girls who made you bleed
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William Gibson's novel Neuromancer,
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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.
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as old as we may be in flesh, we are always young in the bone
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Somebody you busted?" Amanda asked matter-of-factly.
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The history of domestic terrorism is long. The Haymarket bombing occurred in Chicago in 1886.
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