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I get very tired of violence in crime fiction. Maybe it is what life is like, but I don't want to do it in my books.

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I don't choose my villains and heroes for political reasons.

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I am interested in names and what they say; it is true. I like to look at the columns of baby names in the newspapers. But I don't run out of new ones for my characters.

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It's absolutely essential to my life. I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.

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I don't find writing easy. That is because I do take great care; I rewrite a lot.

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Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens.

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I've never met a murderer as far as I know. I would hate to.

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Wexford started off as a very conventional, tough cop and not a very original character because I had no idea I was writing a series, of course. I had no idea I'd created a series character.

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I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories.

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Everybody wants their fame. They long for it, and I think they don't much care how they get it - to attract attention to themselves.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: February 17th, 1930

Died: May 2nd, 2015

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