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The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.
Peter Straub
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My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.
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I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.
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On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit.
Peter Straub
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Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.
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Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.
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Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.
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I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old.
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Everyone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes it's all you can do to stay consistent.
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However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience.
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If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.
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An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.
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These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.
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I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.
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