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Writing is what I do. It's what makes me tick.
Michael Robotham / Writer
Tick
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Alcoholics don’t have relationships-they take hostages.
Michael Robotham / Writer
Aa Recovery
Alcoholics Anonymous
Hostage
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A perfect hero is about as boring as a perfect marriage.
Michael Robotham / Writer
Marriage
Boring
Hero
Perfect
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If I become the man you want, I wouldn't be the man I am.
Michael Robotham / Writer
Men
He Man
Want
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You're not supposed to have a favourite book - it's like children.
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Favourite
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Remember, the worst hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes. (292)
Michael Robotham / Writer
Lasts
Remember
Sixty Minutes
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All of my novels are seeded in real life events, and 'The Wreckage' is no different.
Michael Robotham / Writer
Real Life
Wreckage
Life Real Real Life
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I normally sleep very well, but when I do have bad dreams, they always involve my children.
Michael Robotham / Writer
Involve
Normally
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I write entertainment. There are some books you read but don't inhale. There are books that will change your life.
Michael Robotham / Writer
Inhale
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People think it’s easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it’s incredibly hard work. It’s much easier to be hopeful.
Michael Robotham / Writer
Hard Work
People
Thinking
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The hardest part of ghost writing other people's stories is capturing their voices so that it isn't you talking, it's them.
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Ghost
Capturing
Hardest Part
Voices
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I'd like to set a story in Australia, but I would need to feel confident my German and U.S. readers, for example, would stay with me.
Michael Robotham / Writer
German
Confident
For Example
Readers
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That's the problem with folks nowadays. Nobody takes responsibility for their actions. Make a mistake and you pay for it. That's life.
Michael Robotham / Writer
Mistake
Pay
Responsibility
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I don't know what else to tell you. I often think how different my life would have been - how much happier - if you'd been a part of it. One day.
Michael Robotham / Writer
Different
One Day
Thinking
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I normally write in the first person, and my narrators are as real to me as any of the people I have worked with. They live and breathe in my imagination.
Michael Robotham / Writer
Breathe
Normally
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Why do our parents have the ability to make us feel like children even when our hair is graying and we have a mortgage that feels like a Third World debt? (135)
Michael Robotham / Writer
Children
Hair
Parent
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I'm very fortunate to be doing what I dreamed of, what I love. So few people get that opportunity. So while people continue liking what I write, I'm going to happily continue.
Michael Robotham / Writer
Fortunate
Love Opportunity People
Dreamed
Few People
Happily
Liking
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Journalism took me around the world. I worked in London for ten years and reported on the collapse of the Soviet Union, the troubles in Northern Ireland, and the first Gulf War.
Michael Robotham / Writer
Collapse
Gulf War
Ireland
Journalism
Northern Ireland
Soviet
Soviet Union
War World Me
Gulf
Northern
Union
Reported
Ten Years
Troubles
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I'm very critical of crime novels that use gratuitous violence to shock readers when it isn't necessary. If that's all you have to offer as a writer, perhaps you're in the wrong job.
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Critical
Shock
Gratuitous
Readers
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Everybody you work with has their own voice, and if you do your job well enough, even their closest friends or their partner of 40 years isn't going to recognise the fingerprints of a ghostwriter.
Michael Robotham / Writer
Closest
Closest Friends
Fingerprints
Recognise
Work Enough Your
Partner
Well Enough
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Love and pain are not the same. But sometimes it feels like they should be. Love is put to test everyday. Pain is not. Yet the two of them are inseparable because true love cannot bear separation.
Michael Robotham / Writer
Love Is
Pain
Two
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I write books that will make 10 or 12 hours disappear, and hopefully they'll resonate with you for a few days, where you'll remember the characters and the story. That suits me fine; I am happy with that.
Michael Robotham / Writer
Disappear
I Am Happy I Am Me
Resonate
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Violence is inevitable in crime novels, but there are many different ways to tell a story. I use my characters' reactions to illustrate the worst moments rather than let readers witness them at first hand.
Michael Robotham / Writer
Different Ways
Inevitable
Reactions
Witness
Illustrate
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I wasn't always a novelist. I began my writing career as a journalist, working on an afternoon newspaper in Sydney, Australia, doing the crime beat and court reporting. Having grown up in a small country town, I felt as though I had nothing to write about.
Michael Robotham / Writer
Afternoon
Australia
Journalist
Sydney
Grown
Newspaper
Novelist
Reporting
Small Country
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I believe that if the story is fleshed out and the characters more believable, the reader is more likely to take the journey with them. In addition, the plot can be more complex. My characters are very real to me, and I want each of my characters to be different.
Michael Robotham / Writer
Believable
Plot
Reader
Addition
Journey Believe Me
Be Different
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In the mid-nineties, I quit my job as a senior feature writer at 'The Mail' on Sunday in the U.K. and became a 'ghost writer,' collaborating with politicians, pop stars, psychologists, soldiers and sporting legends who needed help in penning their autobiographies.
Michael Robotham / Writer
Collaborating
Ghost
Legends
Mail
Pop Stars
Senior
Sunday
Autobiographies
Feature
Psychologists
Quit
Soldiers
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One of the strange things about friendship is that time together isn't cancelled out by time apart. One doesn't erase the other or balance it on some invisible scale. You can spend a few hours with someone and they will change your life, or you can spend a lifetime with a person and remain unchanged.
Michael Robotham / Writer
Balance
Strange
Together
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Sometimes friends do foolish things. My father told me that true friends are like gold coins. Ships are wrecked by storms and lie for hundreds of years on the ocean floor. Worms destroy the wood. Iron corrodes. Silver turns black but gold doesn't change in sea water. It loses none of its brilliance or colour. It comes up the same. It survives shipwrecks and time.
Michael Robotham / Writer
Father
Lying
True Friend
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Jealousy is a terrible thing. I know all the psychological triggers. The fear of losing control, the fear of loss, the fear of abandonment, neglect and loneliness... But the most destructive thing about jealousy is that it kills what it values - the love you want to save won't survive the constraints of jealousy. There is no entitlement. Love is either equal or a tragedy.
Michael Robotham / Writer
Loneliness
Loss
Love You
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People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Some try to deny it has happened. Some pretend it hasn't. Losing friends or parents is not the same. To lose a child is beyond comprehension. It defies biology. It contradicts the natural order of history and genealogy. It derails common sense. It violates time. It creates a huge, black, bottomless hole that swallows all hope.
Michael Robotham / Writer
Children
Heart
Order
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