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James Thayer Biography

James Stewart "Jim" Thayer (born May 25, 1949) is an author of thriller novels and an attorney. His first six novels were written under his full name, but since then his middle name is not used.

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I need time to develop the idea into a plot before I talk about it.

Develop, Ideas, Needs, Plot, Time

My students - all adults - bring a lot of writing skill to the first class, and they and I get better as the class progresses.

Adults, Class, Skills, Students, Writing

When I was hired by the University of Washington extension school to teach the one-year fiction writing course - 96 classroom hours - I quickly determined that I knew only about an hour's worth off the top of my head.

Extension, Hours, School, Writing, Years

I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on four novels simultaneously, and produced a million words a year. I'm envious.

Envious, Four, Million, Words, Writing, Years

None of great sages of China preached the precept of love as a guideline for human behavior.

Behavior, China, Love, Preached, Sage, Sages

I've never discovered the idea for my next novel while I was still working on the current novel. Other writers don't suffer this.

Current, Idea, Ideas, Next, Suffering, Writers

I researched fiction writing for months before I taught my first class, much of it looking for strong techniques from bestselling authors.

Authors, Class, Strong, Taught, Writing

My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing.

Compelling, Idea, Ideas, Novel, Original

On opening sentences: "If in the first chapter a hurricane is going to blow down an oak tree which falls through the kitchen roof, there's no need to first describe the kitchen. "

Blow, Chapter, Fall, Oak, Sentences, Writing

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