American - Novelist | July 23, 1968 -
Everyone has secrets, and I think some people flee from home - far from home - to try to keep those secrets.
Chris Pavone
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Expats are a self-selecting group of outgoing, confident people - if you're not those things, you probably don't choose this adventure - and the lifestyle is very conducive to making fast, close friends.
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We all live in a universe in which we're either asked to or are forced to accept certain premises about our employment without having the opportunity to verify them.
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I try to construct each of my novels around one central theme - core tensions shared by the characters.
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In 'The Travelers,' everyone is defined by his or her relationship to work. I put each character on a different rung of the ladder: from the lowliest assistant to a powerful man in the world of media.
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If you can't figure out how to make the beginning of your book compelling, you're probably not writing a compelling book.
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Although no one loves a typo, it's close to impossible to eradicate every single little mistake in a manuscript.
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Before I wrote my first novel, 'The Expats,' I spent nearly two decades at various arms of publishing houses such as Random House, Workman, and HarperCollins, mostly as an acquisitions editor. But a more accurate title for that job might be rejection editor: while I acquired maybe a dozen projects per year, I'd reject hundreds upon hundreds.
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Whatever's good about your book should be good on page 1, or very few editors are going to get to page 2.
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I'm concerned, as I guess all middle-aged people are, about the younger generations' level of literacy.
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I use an e-reader when I'm traveling: I love carrying dozens of books on a small lightweight device, and I'm still amazed every time I purchase and immediately start reading a new title without leaving my hotel room - in another country!
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At home, I tend to read print, and most of the time, that means recently released hardcover novels. I enjoy the feel of paper and board; I like turning pages, dog-earing my spot, jotting notes in the back.
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