If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience.
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As to the number of novels I've abandoned... I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a gruesome enough figure. But not necessarily a waste of effort.
My first novel, 'John Crow's Devil,' freed me up to write about the past, and 'The Book of Night Women' freed me up to have a book totally based on voice and being very spontaneous.
It took me six novels before I felt confident of my voice as a writer.
'Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere' took me six years to write.
It was a bit unimaginable when I began that I'd ever get to 25 books. But it was also unimaginable how much crime-writing would have changed.
Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.
The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you.
A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
It is a very beautiful story, 'The Crow.' It is a very tragic story with huge emotional themes.
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