To be a classic, a novel should be original.
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unusual thing a European thriller writer whose work holds up as literature.Ruth Rendell
I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.
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The knives of jealousy are honed on details.
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I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.
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I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.
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I think about what kind of a background he had, what sort of childhood he had, how he grew up, what he does for a living, the way he wants to live,
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