American - Novelist | January 27, 1965 -
My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me.
Ross MacDonald
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The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.
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The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.
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There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns - different states, if possible - and write each other letters once a year.
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When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble.
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