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Writing is a solitary occupation; we don't really have any colleagues.

~Chris Pavone

Topics: Any Colleagues Occupation Really Solitary Writing

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One of the epiphanies I had was that I got into publishing because I love literature.

~Chris Pavone

Topics: Because Got Had Literature Love Publishing I Love

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I had been very dismissive of popular fiction - in fact, I'd refused to read it. And then I started working on popular fiction, and I realised these books weren't the same as Hemingway, say, but they were good in a different way.

~Chris Pavone

Topics: Been Books Different Different Way Fact Fiction Good Had Hemingway In Fact Popular Read Realised Refused Same Say Started Then Very Way Were Working

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I loved editing, and being a cookbook editor is a really a great job.

~Chris Pavone

Topics: Being Cookbook Editing Editor Great Great Job Job Loved Really

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Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted to put myself in front of the world, but because I wanted to create something that would go out into the world.

~Chris Pavone

Topics: Because Create Eventually Front Go Myself Novels Out Put Realised Something Try Wanted World Would Writing

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'The Expats' is a thriller, but one that tends more toward general fiction than toward breathless pulp.

~Chris Pavone

Topics: Breathless Fiction General More Pulp Tends Than Thriller Toward

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I worked in the book publishing business for nearly two decades before I turned my attention to writing, first with a couple ghostwriting projects, plus a crappy novel that absolutely no one wanted to publish. Then I moved to Luxembourg for my wife's job and found the inspiration for 'The Expats.'

~Chris Pavone

Topics: Absolutely Attention Before Book Business Couple Crappy Decades First Found Inspiration Job Moved Nearly Novel Plus Projects Publish Publishing Then Turned Two Wanted Wife Worked Writing

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There are plenty of paths to becoming a writer, but I think the most reliable ones involve total commitment: writing for magazines and newspapers, teaching writing, editing books, representing authors.

~Chris Pavone

Topics: Authors Becoming Books Commitment Editing Involve Magazines Most Newspapers Paths Plenty Reliable Representing Teaching Think Total Writer Writing I Think

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Any setting can be a good setting for a novel.

~Chris Pavone

Topics: Any Good Novel Setting

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Nearly all of us work, a lot: many people spend more waking hours working than doing all other things combined. And nearly all of us spend our lifetimes working for someone other than ourselves.

~Chris Pavone

Topics: Combined Doing Hours Lifetimes Lot Many More Nearly Other Our Ourselves People Someone Spend Than Things Us Waking Work Working

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: July 23rd, 1968

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