Anne Perry
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"Anne Perry" is an England/English author of historical whodunit/historical detective fiction, best known for her Thomas Pitt series and William Monk series. She was convicted of participating in the Parker–Hulme murder case/murder of her friend's mother in 1954. She changed her name after serving her sentence.

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I am miles ahead with ideas and excitement in the mind, and that is where it all begins. I feel that when I get myself organized, and am in one place long enough, I will have so much energy of mind and belief that I will be able to accomplish infinitely more. My thoughts will be larger and clearer, and with a renewal of life.

I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks.

You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why.

I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.

I work reasonably hard. Though probably not harder than many people. I work probably eight or nine hours a day, six days a week.

The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse.

Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class.

... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.

I'm not a big name at all. Not at all.