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I Do Not Take Any Pleasure Whatsoever In Being A Famous Person.

I Was Extraordinarily Lucky. I Wrote A Book Because I Wanted To See If I Could Write A Mystery. Someone Nagged Me Into Sending It To A Contest, Which It Won, After Which I Was Offered A Two-book Contract, Thus Requiring The Writing Of A Second Book.

I Was At La Fenice Opera House Back In 1991 With Friends, And We Started Talking About A Conductor Whom None Of Us Liked. Somehow There Was An Escalation, And We Started Talking About How To Kill Him, Where To Kill Him. This Struck Me As A Good Idea For A Book.

I Never Know What's Going To Happen In A Novel. I Don't Have A Plan Or An Outline.

I Just Go To Lunch. And I Never Know When Something Is Going Into The File And Something Is Not.