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The difference is this: If you write a good book, it'll get published. If you have a great screenplay, there is no guarantee.

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A lot of journalists are talented enough to write a mystery novel, and I would say that most of the top-end mystery writers actually started out as reporters. But there is more to it than just the writing; there's a learning process, and most journalists aren't willing to do it.

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I'm just trying to normalize my life and get ready for the last 20 years or whatever I've got. It's a lot to take care of.

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I'm an outdoors kind of guy.

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I once paddled a canoe the length of the Mississippi River all the way from Itasca to New Orleans.

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Virgil Flowers fishes in the St. Croix where I fish for muskies near my house.

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I'm somewhat depressive.

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I fear becoming formulaic. Some of my books are.

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There are two worldviews in thriller writing: the paranoid view, like Chuck Logan's, that everything is inside a large clockwork. I like those books; they're intricate and thought out, but my view is that everything is chaotic and stupid. Chaos reigns, and civilized people do what they can to hold it back.

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People ought to be slapped up side of the head, not always get what they expect. That's why sometimes the bad guy gets away.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: February 23rd, 1944

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