From an early age I knew very strongly the lust to kill.
Things never come when they are expected.
I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.
Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.