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" I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on. "

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" I had been coming to America very frequently for many, many years, so I had plenty of exposure - and maybe the best kind of exposure, because I think first impressions are very important. Maybe I notice stuff that is just subliminal to people who live here all the time. "

" A calm environment is for after I finish work. "

" British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography. "

" It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense. "

" There is nothing wrong with just telling the story. "

" What do I miss about the UK? Sadly, almost nothing. Maybe the midnight sun, in June in the north. That's all. "

" I do a little fact checking now and then. Other than that its impact is simply that email has revolutionized communication for me, and my website has built up a community of readers, which is a lot of fun. "

" I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well. "

" I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I keep at it, and it usually takes about six months from the first blank screen until 'The End.' "

" I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence. "

" You mustn't fall in love with your own hero. "

" The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure. "

" I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels. "

" My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever. "

" In principle if I could not have a home I wouldn't. But not having a home would be too difficult procedurally, going from hotel to hotel, the gap of three hours where you're hungry and tired. "

" I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment. "

" Most actors are small, anyway - at least compared to me. "

" Yeah, I am pretty sure of myself. "

" I love visiting LA. It's an endlessly fascinating city, and is, of course, America's entertainment capital. Each time I go, I fall in love with it all over again. That said, it's not the sort of place I'd want to live. "

" I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time. "

" I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy. "

" You know, women are as promiscuous as men and yet, of course, people are inhibited from having an affair or a relationship because the real-world consequences are a drag. "

" It's always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem. "

" Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just as female authors give their heroines better hair and slimmer thighs. "

" Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days, and then rides off into the sunset. "

" She's a reflection of my fascination with the diversity of America she's totally normal in New York, but a freak in Texas. There are dozens of such clashes in America. "

" I'm not really into gourmet food; I'm the kind of guy who just stops by a place that looks good rather than heading for the restaurant of the moment. "

" All of us write wish fulfillment. "

" I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it. "

" I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions. "