"I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers."

-- Lisa Scottoline

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“We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.”
“Men are daft around women, incautious and boastful.”
“Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.”
“You can change your life, because you have an unlimited ability to think and talk about what you love, and so you have an unlimited ability to bring everything good in life to you.”
“Life is lived in the present and directed toward a future.”
“The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.”
“So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.”
“Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the way I look at the world.”

Source : "Thai Air. John Burdett on 'Bangkok Haunts'". "Austin Chronicle" Interview, www.austinchronicle.com. June 15, 2007.

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