Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.
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I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.
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I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
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People always want to call me a Southern writer but though I grew up in the South, I don't feel that the label quite fits my work.
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Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.
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