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Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.


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I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.
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Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.
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I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there.
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I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien.
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I dont like any of them, because they don't read the books. In Kiss Me Deadly my story is better than his story. Anthony Quinn played in The Lond Wait and he didn't read the book either.
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