Kathy Reichs Quotes

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• I was a university professor, I could talk on and on and on. Give me a podium and you have to drag me off with…
• What gives my books authenticity is that I actually do what it is I'm writing about. I think the fact that I am in the…
• My first book was the most successful debut novel in the U.K. ever and every one of my books has reached number one in the…
• Bones tell me the story of a person's life — how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background,
• Many fiction writers who put the science in dont get it right.
• Murder mysteries are puzzles that are fun to resolve.
• I've never lost my capacity to be shocked.
• I originally worked as an archaeologist in North Carolina, and when bones were found police would take them out to the bones lady at the…
• I tend to watch a lot of movies at home. It's nice to be close to the refrigerator with my pyjamas on and just relax.
• I work with the dead, but I am working for the living.
• I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.
• I've been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don't like a lot of verbiage in there.
• People love to hate the gravedigger.
• You'd be naive if you think you are going to retain any control once you option a character to TV.
• At first I probably seem very abrupt, but I like efficiency. There's work and there's play, and I always think: 'Let's get the work over…
• I do interviews and signings and readings and all of these people just hang off my every word. And then I go home and have…
• One of the surprising things I hadn't expected when I decided to write crime fiction is how much you are expected to be out in…
• Edmonton is Canada's answer to Omaha. Solid, unassuming, and surrounded by a whole lot of nothing. It's a place that makes you think of sensible…
• If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get…
• Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity.

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