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The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.

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When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary, because they are not going to interest your readers at all. Every writer in the world has to use the characters that have something interesting about them, and this is even more true in children's books.

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I find that the only way to make my characters really interesting to children is to exaggerate all their good or bad qualities, and so if a person is nasty or bad or cruel, you make them very nasty, very bad, very cruel. If they are ugly, you make them extremely ugly. That, I think, is fun and makes an impact.

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Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?

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I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.

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I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.

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Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.

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Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.

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I go down to my little hut, where it's tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back to being six or seven or eight again.

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'Dexter' is a very well-oiled machine; it's just a great show and great to be part of.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Novelist

Born: September 13th, 1916

Died: November 25th, 1990

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