American - Author | December 23, 1937 -
The truth is I don't watch TV at all. It bores me.
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I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its author made an enormous impression on me as a reader and a writer, and led me to other hard-boiled American writers like Raymond Chandler and Ross McDonald, among many.
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Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how I became a writer.
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Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14 years to write a book, not that I worked on it every day.
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Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories.
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I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.
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In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses.
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It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of television, because television is not like a written story.
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