Thomas Perry Quotes

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• Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.
• There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn…
• Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities.
• You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when…
• But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification…
• All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice.
• Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.
• I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre.
• I do want to write about Jane Whitefield again, but only when I have a good enough idea - something I've figured out about her…
• I do like to explore evil characters in my books.
• I don't consciously do anything to maintain a unique voice.
• I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that…
• I don't have dry seasons, because I don't allow them.
• I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.
• I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.
• I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.
• If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some…
• If you'll think about various series you've read, can you think of any instance in which, say, the tenth volume of the series is notably…
• It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it.…
• Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd like him to…

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