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I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I ever wrote a novel or crime novel of any kind, I had... →
A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonist's taste in music, or we're told that the... →
In everything I've written, the crime has always just been an occasion to write about other things. I don't have a picture of myself as... →
In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.
As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling.
Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.
For some men, life seems to be one long attempt to escape childhood and all the fears of childhood. That's what many of us are doing.
I like having a plot; I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.
I suppose most crime writing is urban. There's not a lot... certainly not in Australia, people don't often set books in the countryside.
I think if you live in a country, basically you share the dominant values of a country although you may disagree on issues all the time.
No book of mine is complete without a dog.
There's a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along.
A lot of people like cabinet making; people are intrigued by it. Women in particular like cabinet making. They like it more than men do - the men are... →
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