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If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.
I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But... →
The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find... →
I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're... →
I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.
Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning... →
I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking... →
I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced... →
I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had a chapter. The next... →
If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified... →
Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work... →
When I was acting, I got trained in creating a character as a three-dimensional person. If you're doing it right you should be able to draw an... →
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