I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.

In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're…

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.

If I had the luxury of working as a full time writer, I think you would see novels appearing on a much more regular, and frequent, basis.

You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one'…

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