"Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a……" — Linwood Barclay
"Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with a hook, a situation, a 'what if."
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18 Quotes by Linwood Barclay
Linwood Barclay has 18 quotes on this site.
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Sometimes, it`s easier to tell a stranger something very personal. It`s like there`s less risk, opening yourself up to someone…
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Once you come up with a premise, you have to work out how it all happened. It's a bit like…
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Switching over to a hybrid car is one of those right things, but, unfairly or not, it still has a…
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I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was…
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My life isn't much different than when I worked full time as a journalist.
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Al Gore, the former vice-president of the United States, lives in a mansion that uses more electricity than the average…
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Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most…
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Even if I couldn't get my early novels published, I could still write. I went into newspapers, where I got…
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Facebook, from what I can tell, is the virtual equivalent of dropping into the homes of several million people, all…
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Generally speaking, rural drivers are a much better behaved species than city drivers. I'm not sure whether they're intrinsically this…
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I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents moved to the suburbs of…
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It's one thing, holding open the door for someone at a grocery store, or the library, or just about anyplace…
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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to…
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of…
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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We must be authors of the history of our age.
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among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the…
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Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading…
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The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom…
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Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author…
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