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Tana French
Irish Novelist
Born: 1973
Always Books Life Me Writing You
Related authors: Elizabeth Bowen Frank Delaney George A. Moore James Joyce John Banville Laurence Sterne Maeve Binchy Robert Graves
If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once. Tana French
You Once Paragraph Fine Only Terrible Times Get Rewrite Them Fifty Right Need
I'd always been fascinated by archaeology; it was my original career plan as a kid. Tana French
Kid Archaeology Always Been Plan Fascinated Original Career
When I was acting, I got trained in creating a character as a three-dimensional person. If you're doing it right you should be able to draw an audience into the character's world and make them feel their fears. Tana French
Character You World Fears Draw Able Three-Dimensional Feel Make Audience Got Doing Trained Person Them Creating Should Acting Right
The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation. Tana French
You Situation Every Marks Out Find About Mystery Writer Always Historical Chick Historical Fiction Author Being Lit Fiction Fiction Writer Thing
I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had a chapter. The next thing I knew I was turning acting down. Tana French
Book Chapter Thought Before Down Proper Could Write Never Had Knew Done Then Turning Next Acting Next Thing Sequence Thing
I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a set of choices which will change life forever. Tana French
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I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior. Tana French
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Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing. Tana French
Love Morning Writing Same Thing Back Out Able Both Always Doing Up Get Same Wanted Acting Now Thing Career
If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's. Tana French
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My night stand is permanently jammed with books I want to read. Tana French
Books Read Permanently Want Stand Night
I'm slightly in awe of writers, such as Sophie Hannah, who follow outlines. Tana French
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With 'Broken Harbour,' a third of the way through, I worked it out and had to go back and bloody rewrite. Tana French
Broken Back Way Out Through Had Go Bloody Rewrite Worked Harbour Third
I'm always looking for the potential mystery in everything; I can't imagine writing about anything else. Tana French
Writing Looking Else Everything About Potential Mystery Always Anything Anything Else Imagine
I read one book where the characters never said anything; instead, they spent all their time grunting and bleating and hissing and cooing and growling and chirping and... It was like a menagerie in there. After a while, I wasn't even taking in the rest of the book, because that was all I could see: the dialogue tags. Tana French
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I remember reading about the Marie Celeste when I was a kid and becoming obsessed with what happened. Tana French
Remember Reading Kid About Obsessed Becoming Happened Marie
In terms of pure volume, I probably read more psychological mystery and historical true crime than anything else. Tana French
Crime Pure Else More Mystery Volume True Terms Read Historical Than Anything Psychological Anything Else
I like books like 'The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher,' where the investigation of a crime becomes a way into an exploration of the society where the crime took place. Tana French
Crime Society Took Books Way Investigation Like Becomes Suspicions Where Place Exploration
I had a pretty happy, loved childhood. Tana French
Happy Pretty Had Childhood Loved
I don't really plan ahead very far. I have never known what I'm doing more than a few pages ahead. Tana French
Few More Never Known Doing Very Than Plan Far Really Pages
If you're too lucky, it can be very easy to lack the ability to believe that other people's lived experience is real when it doesn't match up with yours. Tana French
You Experience People Believe Too Other Easy Ability Match Real Up Very Lack Yours Lucky Lived
I've always seen places as being very deeply connected to the experience that people have in those places. I think that probably comes through very much in my books. Tana French
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