In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

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There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

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I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.

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I love the structural part of the writing process.

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I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.

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Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just...

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I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

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People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.

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When I was a kid, my understanding of the seasons was that December and January were cold and covered with snow, April and May were bursting with flowers, July and August were hot and sunshiny, and...
How come some insects are able to walk on the surface of a pond, but you quickly sink to the bottom when you try to walk on water? And why do lakes freeze from the top down in winter? In a word, the...