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All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with 'Rocky,' so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

Even after all these years, finding a really first-rate story is still a thrill, one I want to share with others.

All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.

My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.

I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.

I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories.

I was writing fiction in my 20s but in a pretty undisciplined way - late at night, maybe, after I'd peeled myself from the walls of a nightclub and crawled home along the gutters. But I slowly became more serious and more devout in my work, and I fell seriously in love with the short story form.

All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

Every story I do is about people. It's my survival instinct - one person, one story.