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Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.

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Michael Koryta

Stephen King, by far, is the standard-bearer. I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says that King isn't an influence is either lying or being foolish. I read his book 'On Writing' before I read pretty much any of his fiction.

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You have only so many chances to tell stories. I didn't want to be forever wedded to one form of storytelling when there are so many out there.

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'Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third person and I loved the feel of that, and it was different but it was also the same. 'So Cold the River,' I knew, was going to be really different, and that's why I thought about doing it as a novella under a pseudonym, because I didn't want to damage my career.

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I started writing as soon as I started reading.

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I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says that King isn't an influence is either lying or being foolish.

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I've never really found inspiration for story ideas in the news, but I'd say it certainly affects our lives in so many ways. I would say that certainly the stories of the day appear in the work - I just have never gone so far as to say, well, this particular event could influence a plot of an entire book.

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