Quote #18

I'm not so interested in the act of murder as in the echoes and repercussions of the act, and how they play out over time.

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  1. I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.
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  3. I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.
  4. I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.
  5. I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.
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  8. I really do work in solitude.

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