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By AnonymNelson Demille
Absolutely breathtaking, nail-biting, and edge-of-your-seat. Michael Koryta is a master at maintaining suspense and a hell of a good writer. THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is one of the best chase-and-escape novels you’ll read this year-or any other year. The pace never lets up.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
Chemical and biological attacks are scary and will kill a lot of people but dont rise to the level of nuclear.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
Even the most radical Islamic terrorist would not want to see the revered holy city of Medina go up. It would be like losing the Vatican in Rome.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
Everyone looked pensive, which is good cover-up for clueless.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
I do write my manuscripts by hand, in pencil on legal pads. Then they are typed on a word processor by my typist.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
I enjoy the presence of a woman in the house for brief periods of time. They fall into two categories: the organizers and the slobs. There’s probably a third category—the naggers, who try to get you to do things, but I’ve never run into one of those. Oddly, I have no preference regarding oganizers or slobs, as long as they don’t try to pick my clothes for me. Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees. It works fine if people stick to their fated roles. But nobody does.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
I had a very strong desire to be successful at something.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
I sometimes use some personality traits to fashion part of a character. Most of my characters are composites of either people I know or people in the public eye.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
I think it's more difficult now to write a spy thriller with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many authors have tried, but few have succeeded in capturing the interest of readers.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
I thought to myself, what is everyone's worst fear? Nuclear terrorism in America.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
I try to end every chapter with an air of suspense. I try to leave the reader wanting to turn the page.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
I try to use short sentences, short paragraphs and short chapters to keep the reader's interest.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
It's good to stay as close to real life as you can, and then kind of dress it up.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
It's much different today than it was during the Cold War. The CIA is not the subject of many books anymore. But that might change, because of international terrorism and Red China.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
It's really scary when you have a moment of temporary sanity.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
I turned to the Times crossword puzzle and asked Kate, “What’s the definition of a moderate Arab?” “I don’t know.” “A guy who ran out of ammunition.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
I've always been fascinated by the Gold Coast. The homes themselves are spectacular, unlike anything you'll see other than in Newport, Bar Harbor or Palm Beach. It's a very special area that, because of local demographics, is not going to survive much longer.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
I was trained in Army Intelligence, but spent most of my army career in the infantry. But like many people of my generation, I was very much caught up in the Cold War, and books and movies about espionage.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
Job happiness is directly proportional to the distance you are from the home office.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
Kate had never been married, so she had no way of knowing if I was a normal husband. This has been good for our marriage.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
…made me promise to cut down on the drinking and swearing, which I have. Unfortunately, this has left me dim-witted and nearly speechless.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
Most of my books are about contemporary subjects, and the world changes so fast that I'm lucky when events haven't overtaken the book I'm writing at the moment.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
Mrs. Corey still uses her maiden name for business, or when she wants to pretend she doesn’t know me.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
Panic---a deep abiding, free-floating anxiety, often without any reason or logical basis.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
The meaning of life has not much to do with good and evil, right and wrong, duty, honor, country, or any of that. It has to do with cutting the right deal.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
...the most common cause of death among alpha males was ego.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
There are Mafia families that have bought magnificent houses on the North Shore, although not yet the great estates because they don't want that kind of high profile.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
We're all pilgrims on the same journey but some pilgrims have better road maps.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
Writing doesn't leave much time for hobbies, unless you consider that I began writing as a hobby and have made the hobby into a profession.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
A lot of who you were in middle age was determined before you had a chance to manipulate, control, or eve understand the things around you. It was no mystery, he thought, why some old people's minds returned to their youth; the wonder of those years, the discoveries, the first experience with the dirty secret of death, and the first stirrings of lust and love were indelible, drawn in luminous colors on clean canvas. Indeed, the first sex act was so mind-boggling that most people could still remember it clearly twenty, thirty, sixty years later.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
I tried to picture a bunch of guys in blue suits running around a beachside neighborhood, knocking on doors and flashing Fed creds. That should cause a stampede of illegal aliens heading south.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
I wasn't sure about that, but one never knows. Sometimes a neighborhood, like a culture or civilization, is strong enough to absorb and acculturate any number of newcomers. But I don't know if that's true around here any longer. The outward forms and appearances look the same - [...]- but the substance has been altered.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
Me, Mia. Mama mia, Mia. Otis is rigor mortis.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
Psychology is a soft weapon but you can take out more enemy battalions with leaflets and radio broadcasts than with high explosives.
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By AnonymNelson Demille
What these people were trying to create or re-create here in this new world is beyond me. I can't put myself in their minds or their hearts, but I can sympathize with their struggle for an identity, with their puzzlement, which has troubled Americans from the very beginning - Who are we, where do we fit in, where are we going?
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By AnonymNelson Demille
You get a promotion?" "I got a polite, but firm suggestion to be a team player. [...]" "You got off easy. One of my commanding officers once threw a paperweight at me." "We're a bit more subtle.
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