The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not.
Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck. - Thomas Perry
Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.
- Thomas Perry
I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read. - Thomas Perry
I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.
If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just… - Thomas Perry
If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just…
There is no place so benighted and godforsaken that some moron won't go there on vacation. People could be living in an open sewer and swallowing dir… - Thomas Perry
There is no place so benighted and godforsaken that some moron won't go there on vacation. People could be living in an open sewer and swallowing dir…
Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry. - Thomas Perry
Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.
Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities. - Thomas Perry
Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities.
I don't have dry seasons, because I don't allow them. - Thomas Perry
I don't have dry seasons, because I don't allow them.
I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing. - Thomas Perry
I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.
I don't consciously do anything to maintain a unique voice. - Thomas Perry
I don't consciously do anything to maintain a unique voice.
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