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• There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined…
• I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.
• Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence…
• Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight.
• Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and paragraph by…
• I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.
• God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.
• Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular…
• I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.
• When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly…
• Everyone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes it's all you can do to stay consistent.
• Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

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