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" I read 'The Hobbit' only when I was an adult. I had a lot of friends, teenagers, who discovered reading through 'The Hobbit,' but it wasn't something that I discovered until later in life. "
Matthew Reilly
Friends
Only
Reading
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" Fantasy enabled me to break the shackles and create a whole new level of 'the world is in danger' stakes. "
Matthew Reilly
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World
New
" What I do is write books for an audience that thinks in a movie language. That's the way I think, and I also believe that not enough authors keep up with the audience. "
Matthew Reilly
Enough
Language
Believe
" I write about all manner of things: a guy fighting aliens in the New York State Library, Antarctica, Inca civilization in Peru, the Great Pyramid at Giza, and people often ask me, where do I get these ideas from? They come from reading widely, watching a lot of documentaries, and increasingly ,as I was able to, travelling around the world. "
Matthew Reilly
New York
Great
World
" My first book, 'Contest,' had a guy fighting aliens in the New York Public Library. The second book, 'Ice Station,' and 'Temple' were present-day military thrillers. "
Matthew Reilly
Book
New
Library
" I'm very good at plot. "
Matthew Reilly
Plot
Very
Good
" In 'Seven Ancient Wonders,' Jack West and his team break someone out of Guantanamo Bay. I'm not going to preach to people and say, 'Guantanamo Bay, bad', but I will have my hero go and break somebody out of it, and maybe people will think about it that way. "
Matthew Reilly
Say
Think
Team
" When I started writing, I was reading people such as Tom Clancy or Michael Crichton, who did 'Jurassic Park,' which is possibly the most action-filled book you'll read, apart from mine, and I said to myself, 'Why aren't these guys doing big-scale action like you would see in a movie?' "
Matthew Reilly
Myself
Reading
People
" I've been around long enough now that people who don't get into the outrageousness, the over-the-top stuff, they know not to buy my books anymore. "
Matthew Reilly
Long
Know
Enough
" I wasn't one of those kids who dreamed of writing novels when I was 8 or 12. I wanted to be a film director. I wanted to make big action movies. I loved movies like 'Die Hard,' 'Predator,' 'Aliens,' 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.' "
Matthew Reilly
Writing
Movies
Loved
" Zoos have always fascinated me. What child hasn't wondered what would happen if all the animals escaped from the zoo? Or what would happen if they got caught in an enclosure? "
Matthew Reilly
Zoo
Animals
Always
" I think 'The Time Traveler's Wife' is one of the most brilliantly marketed books I have ever seen. "
Matthew Reilly
Time
Think
Seen