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I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

I'm really into the idea of telling stories. Everyone needs stories. Everyone needs to escape every once in a while.

I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.

Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.

I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires.

All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street.

People love stories. They need stories.

I want to get up there and tell entertaining stories but that are also to a certain extent clean.

Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude.

I've always set my stories in places I know well. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters if I'm not worrying about the logistics.