- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.
- Space
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in the day, when I started, you were still allowed to make mistakes. You got to make your mistakes in public, in a way. I think the world was a more forgiving place when I started my career, in the sense that we got time and space to develop as a writer.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't make the best-seller list, if you don't get shortlisted for any prizes, it's goodbye.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020