- Fascinate
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most animals are pragmatic about mysteries: If they run across something they don't understand, all they care about is whether it's edible and whether it's dangerous. Humans, on the other hand, are drawn to the mystery for its own sake.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always looking for the potential mystery in everything; I can't imagine writing about anything else.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's OK to screw up. For me, this was the big revelation when I was writing my first book, 'In the Woods': I could get it wrong as many times as I needed to.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your character is always right. No real person thinks they're being stupid or misguided or bigoted or evil or just plain wrong - so your characters can't, either.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't be scared of 'said.' Writers sometimes go looking for alternatives because they worry that 'he said' and 'she said' will feel repetitive if they're used all the time, but I swear, they won't.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read one book where the characters never said anything; instead, they spent all their time grunting and bleating and hissing and cooing and growling and chirping and... It was like a menagerie in there. After a while, I wasn't even taking in the rest of the book, because that was all I could see: the dialogue tags.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember reading about the Marie Celeste when I was a kid and becoming obsessed with what happened.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I reread a lot. I must have read 'The Once and Future King,' 'Watership Down' and Mary Renault's 'Theseus' books at least a dozen times each.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
In terms of pure volume, I probably read more psychological mystery and historical true crime than anything else.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like books like 'The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher,' where the investigation of a crime becomes a way into an exploration of the society where the crime took place.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody has ways in which they've been lucky in life, and everybody also has ways in which they've definitely rolled snake eyes.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a pretty happy, loved childhood.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020