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I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed.

I'd always wanted to write crime fiction. I loved Nancy Drew.

I was obsessed with Nancy Drew growing up - I couldn't get enough.

I always know when a novel is going to be a Barbara Vine one. In fact I believe that if I weren't to write it as Barbara Vine, I wouldn't be able to write it at all.

I'm a writer first and a woman after.

I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.

Yes, I was the child who would sneak into her closet and read 'Nancy Drew' for hours after the designated 'lights out' time of night.

The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.

I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do.

If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself.