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I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves.

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I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham Greene, of Hammett and Chandler, seemed to offer me all the rope I would ever need.

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My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me.

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: January 27th, 1965

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