Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously.

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I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.

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I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.

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I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.

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In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.

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I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

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I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.

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Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.

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Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact.

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You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters insteresting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects.

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