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27 quotes by Elizabeth George

Susan Elizabeth George (born February 26, 1949 ) is an American author of mystery novels set in Great Britain. Eleven of her novels featuring her main character, Inspector Lynley, have been adapted for television by the BBC as The Inspector Lynley Mysteries.
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Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I always do characters, and the arc of the story... →

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I wish that I had known back then that a mastery of process would lead to a product. Then I probably wouldn't have found it so frightening to... →

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I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and see how the novel takes shape based on... →

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Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that... →

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The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.

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Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their... →

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The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of... →

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I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.

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It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.

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I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.

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I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer.

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I myself have suffered periodically from hearing voices at night when I'm trying to sleep.

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Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.

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