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" People love to hate the gravedigger. "
Kathy Reichs
Love
Hate
People
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" You'd be naive if you think you are going to retain any control once you option a character to TV. "
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" I was a university professor, I could talk on and on and on. Give me a podium and you have to drag me off with a hook. "
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" I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters. "
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" At first I probably seem very abrupt, but I like efficiency. There's work and there's play, and I always think: 'Let's get the work over with so we can thoroughly enjoy the play.' "
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" If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get a degree in chemistry. Do you want to do DNA work? Get a degree in microbiology. And do well. Study hard and go to graduate school. "
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Education
Work
Need
" I've never lost my capacity to be shocked. "
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Shocked
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" I've been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don't like a lot of verbiage in there. "
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" What gives my books authenticity is that I actually do what it is I'm writing about. I think the fact that I am in the autopsy room, I go to the crime scene and I do work in the lab gives my books this flavor that otherwise they wouldn't have. "
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" I do interviews and signings and readings and all of these people just hang off my every word. And then I go home and have dinner with my family and nobody lets me get a word in. "
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" One of the surprising things I hadn't expected when I decided to write crime fiction is how much you are expected to be out in front of the public. Some writers aren't comfortable with that. I don't have a problem with that. "
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Crime
" Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background. "
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Gender
Life
" I work with the dead, but I am working for the living. "
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Work
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" I tend to watch a lot of movies at home. It's nice to be close to the refrigerator with my pyjamas on and just relax. "
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" I originally worked as an archaeologist in North Carolina, and when bones were found police would take them out to the bones lady at the university, and that was me. "
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Out
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