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No looking back. Life goes one way only, and whatever opinions you hold about the past having nothing to do with anything…
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So of course time is necessary. But nevertheless damn painful, for it transforms all the pieces of your life - joy and…
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Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler…
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What I wanted to do was slap him down a bit with wit and words. Grammar and vocabulary as a weapon. But…
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It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to
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Well, I'm a slow writer. For me, a good day is a page, maybe a page and a half. I'd love to…
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I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in…
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I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it.
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I was 46 when 'Cold Mountain' came out. I was settled. We had a nice house in Raleigh and a horse farm.
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If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music.
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People who are isolated interest me, whether they isolate themselves or have been isolated by circumstances.
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From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary's childhood memories extended…
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Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.
— James Ellroy
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Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler…
— Charles Frazier
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Steve Forman is a brutally funny writer. His no-nonsense, unadorned style begs comparison to Dashiell Hammett, but Hammett's humor at its darkest…
— Loren D. Estleman
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I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of…
— Ross Macdonald
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I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years,…
— Megan Abbott
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Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley.
— Raymond Chandler
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While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period…
— Paul Auster
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All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.
— Donna Leon
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Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with…
— Raymond Chandler
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