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I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.

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My reading life is like an airport where a bunch of planes circle in a holding pattern, then - boom, boom, boom - several come in for a landing.

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In my newspaper days, your endings could be literally sliced off in the composing room, so it was dangerous to get attached to them. Yet I think this has made me work harder on endings in fiction.

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Edward Eager wrote a series of children's books that are in danger of being forgotten. But they're divine: stories about ordinary kids who stumble on magical things - a coin, a lake, a book, a thyme garden, a well. The magic changes them, they try to change the magic, the magic moves on.

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I like books steeped in the quotidian - details about work and place. You can learn how to run a chicken-and-waffle restaurant by reading 'Mildred Pierce.' And I like fiction about money.

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People still struggle with this notion of gifted writers somehow being in touch with a higher power, but it's all about showing up and doing the job, meeting deadlines, working hard.

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For me, crime fiction was an opportunity to sneak up on readers with social issues, something they won't go out of their way to seek.

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My husband, David Simon, and I make our livings using our imaginations.

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My husband and I are both proud public school graduates.

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I spent grades one through nine in Baltimore City, leaving for reasons that had nothing to do with the quality of education I was receiving.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 31st, 1959

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