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- Nov 07, 2020
I know a lot of crime writers feel very underrated, like they're not taken seriously, and they want to be just thought of as writers rather than ghettoised as crime writers, but I love being thought of firmly as a crime writer.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm snobby about books that aren't crime fiction: if I start reading a literary novel and there's no mystery emerging in the first few pages, I'm like, 'Gah, this obviously isn't a proper book. Why would I want to carry on reading it?'
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never write about CIA conspiracies or the FBI or mafia or anything like that because I just don't understand that world. But I think I do understand individual human harmfulness.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only Agatha Christie can write like Agatha Christie.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, a big part of writing psychological thrillers is choosing crimes committed for motives which would only apply to a particular person in a particular situation; a unique, one-off motive that is born out of someone's particular range of psychological afflictions.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My characters all have issues, but I don't see that as weird or abnormal because I think in real life there are very few bland, normal people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always notice the dysfunctional dynamic of human relationships because most places where you encounter it, people are trying to pretend it isn't happening.
- Jealousy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want my books to explore motives which make people think, 'Wow! Imagine the psychological state you'd have to be in for that to be your motive!' Whereas things like blackmail, jealousy - they're rational reasons for committing murder.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody has ever written as many enjoyable, fun-to-read crime novels as Agatha Christie. It's all about the storytelling and the pleasure of the reader. She doesn't want to be deep or highbrow.
- Connection
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- Nov 07, 2020
All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My crime novels are highly structured. I never start out with a dead body. I start with an impossible scenario. Opening questions should be mysterious, weird, intriguing, and contain the seeds of the solution. The structure has to be meticulous - I'm a structure freak.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a fellow commoner at Lucy Cavendish College. My husband used to be a lecturer at Leeds University, and we lived in Yorkshire for 11 years. When he gave up his job, we realised we could live wherever we liked.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am trying to write novels for properly clever people, but I also want them to be proper novels that also stick in a person's mind and have an atmosphere about them.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
With me, even if my life depended on it, I wouldn't be able to cry. Not with somebody there. Because even if I'm talking about bad and upsetting things, if there is somebody else in the room, I am trying to entertain them. If there is somebody there, I am in performance mode. I can only cry if I am on my own.
- Normal
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are very few well-adjusted people in my books. But I do think that's normal. Because everyone does have their issues and hang-ups.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we knew more about psychology, we would be better equipped to deal with other people's psychological damage which they might project onto us.
- Cricket
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, whose hobby was collecting secondhand cricket books, came back from a book fair one day with a copy of 'The Body In The Library.'
- Books
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- Nov 07, 2020
Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.
- Crime Fiction
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention.
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was working as a secretary in Manchester and thought I would always do that. Then I got this letter offering me a two-year fellowship where I could write; they would pay me a salary and give me a flat to live in. It was heaven.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
What surprised me most while writing 'The Monogram Murders' was that everything I needed seemed to arrive in my head exactly when I needed it.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my children were very young, I was slated to go on a business trip. When it was nearly canceled, I decided I wouldn't tell anyone and go off for a week's vacation anyway. In the end, the trip went off as planned. But I was intrigued by the idea of an illicit holiday.
- Babies
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not cut out to lug babies around!
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Crime fiction is a way of satisfying that nosy need to know.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got lots of favourite authors, but I would say Nicci French because I look more forward to reading her next new book than any other author.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favourite Friday treat is to drive out of the centre of Cambridge, where we live, and go for a swim at the health club I've just joined out in the countryside at Quy. It's a lovely pool, inside a converted barn. Usually it's just me and a couple of other swimmers there.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
The brilliant thing about swimming is that, while you're doing it, there's nothing else you could be getting on with, like the ironing or sorting out the children. My mind goes into free-float mode; some of the best ideas for plots come into my head while I'm ploughing up and down the pool.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the house we're in, but at the same time, I'm hooked on the romance of house-hunting.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some writers, I'm told, look for their characters' surnames in telephone directories. I don't - it seems too obvious. Or too deliberate: if you go looking for names, you're bound to find them, of course, but I've always had a superstitious hunch that the names you find by accident are always going to be better and more satisfying somehow.
- Magic
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