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There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, Picture Quote #1

When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William’s secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel Picture Quote #1

A locked-room problem lies at the heart of my new novel, ‘In The Morning I’ll Be Gone,’ in which an RUC detective has to find out whether a publican’s daughter who fell off a table in a bar that was locked from the inside was in fact murdered Picture Quote #1

I’ve written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city. The novels have an extremely tenuous relationship with the real world, since the hero is the city’s Hell and ends up with a sidekick who is a demon Picture Quote #1

The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective’s personal life, the circumstances of the crime and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character Picture Quote #1

A publisher saw one of my historical novels and thought I would write an admirable detective story, so she offered me a two-book contract, and I grabbed it Picture Quote #1

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I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn’t until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them Picture Quote #1

I’ve always had the wish, the nostalgia to be able to write detective novels. At heart, the principal themes of detective novels are close to the things that obsess me: disappearance, the problems of identity, amnesia, the return to an enigmatic past Picture Quote #1

When I’m working on a serious and solid book ... I read about a detective novel a day. It’s the best legal dope in the world. It makes you feel good until the next morning you can work again Picture Quote #1

I love the Swedish people for their detective novels, their archipelago, their sense of humor, their carbonated vodka, and most especially, for their wonderful hospitality Picture Quote #1

But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own Picture Quote #1

Ah, there’s nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two invaluable contributions to civilization - this tea ritual and the detective novel Picture Quote #1

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I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read ‘The Day of the Jackal’ and ‘The Exorcist’. I hadn’t read a lot of commercial fiction, and I liked them Picture Quote #1

Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels Picture Quote #1

There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better Picture Quote #1

After all, the fundamental question of philosophy (like that of psychoanalysis) is the same as the question of the detective novel: who is guilty? Picture Quote #1

But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own Picture Quote #1

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine Picture Quote #1

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It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down Picture Quote #1

I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn’t until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them Picture Quote #1

When I’m working on a serious and solid book... I read about a detective novel a day. It’s the best legal dope in the world. It makes you feel good until the next morning you can work again Picture Quote #1

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure Picture Quote #1

I read Parker's Spenser series in college. When it comes to detective novels, 90 percent of us admit he's an influence, and the rest of us lie about it Picture Quote #1

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There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, (Detective Novel Quotes) When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William’s secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel (Detective Novel Quotes) A locked-room problem lies at the heart of my new novel, ‘In The Morning I’ll Be Gone,’ in which an RUC detective has to find out whether a publican’s daughter who fell off a table in a bar that was locked from the inside was in fact murdered. (Detective Novel Quotes) I’ve written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city. The novels have an extremely tenuous relationship with the real world, since the hero is the city’s Hell and ends up with a sidekick who is a demon. (Detective Novel Quotes) The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective’s personal life, the circumstances of the crime and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character. (Detective Novel Quotes) A publisher saw one of my historical novels and thought I would write an admirable detective story, so she offered me a two-book contract, and I grabbed it. (Detective Novel Quotes) I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn’t until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them. (Detective Novel Quotes) I’ve always had the wish, the nostalgia to be able to write detective novels. At heart, the principal themes of detective novels are close to the things that obsess me: disappearance, the problems of identity, amnesia, the return to an enigmatic past. (Detective Novel Quotes) When I’m working on a serious and solid book ... I read about a detective novel a day. It’s the best legal dope in the world. It makes you feel good until the next morning you can work again. (Detective Novel Quotes) I love the Swedish people for their detective novels, their archipelago, their sense of humor, their carbonated vodka, and most especially, for their wonderful hospitality. (Detective Novel Quotes) But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. (Detective Novel Quotes) Ah, there’s nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two invaluable contributions to civilization - this tea ritual and the detective novel (Detective Novel Quotes) I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read ‘The Day of the Jackal’ and ‘The Exorcist’. I hadn’t read a lot of commercial fiction, and I liked them (Detective Novel Quotes) Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels (Detective Novel Quotes) There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better (Detective Novel Quotes) After all, the fundamental question of philosophy (like that of psychoanalysis) is the same as the question of the detective novel: who is guilty? (Detective Novel Quotes) But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own (Detective Novel Quotes) In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine (Detective Novel Quotes) It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down (Detective Novel Quotes) I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn’t until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them (Detective Novel Quotes) When I’m working on a serious and solid book... I read about a detective novel a day. It’s the best legal dope in the world. It makes you feel good until the next morning you can work again (Detective Novel Quotes) The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure (Detective Novel Quotes) I read Parker's Spenser series in college. When it comes to detective novels, 90 percent of us admit he's an influence, and the rest of us lie about it (Detective Novel Quotes)