Martha Grimes
Martha Grimes
Martha Grimesis an American writer of detective fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 May 1931
CountryUnited States of America
hate understanding trying
Before you hate something you should try to understand it.
kept
I don't think I could have just kept writing the 'Richard Jury' books. It wasn't that I was bored or dissatisfied. I just had to write something else.
I don't have to hang around a pub, really, to get an idea. I usually visit it once, get the layout, the atmosphere, the feel of it.
endings insist mysteries people pleasant tolstoy
There are people who read Tolstoy or Dostoevski who do not insist that their endings be happy or pleasant or, at least, not be depressing. But if you're writing mysteries - oh, no, you can't have an ending like that. It must be tidy.
certain framework kinds
Writing a mystery is more difficult than other kinds of books because a mystery has a certain framework that must be superimposed over the story.
When you write the first book of a series, you do have to be careful what you put in because then you are stuck with it.
although characters continues hard love stories telling
I love stories. I just enjoy telling stories and watching what these characters do - although writing continues to be just as hard as it always was.
although hear huge image music piece
I'll see something or hear something. Sometimes, it can be a color. Or a piece of music. Or an image of some kind. I see something, and it has huge emotional weight, although I have no idea why.
readers
I have readers tell me that I must be bored, but that's not true. I am never bored with the characters. I like them.
battling constantly takes
I'm constantly battling writer's block; it usually takes me two hours to write anything.
atmosphere attention controlled james particular pays
I do read P.D. James because she pays much more attention to character, to a particular atmosphere or setting. But most mystery writers, I think, are controlled by the plot.
house directors roles
Remember the great film with Bette Davis, All About Eve? There's a scene after the scheming Eve steals Margo's role through trickery & then gets this magnificent review. Margo of course is effing & blinding all over the place. And crying. Her director rushes into her house, puts his arms around her & says, "I ran all the way". That's what I want.
childhood idyllic illusion
An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.
tea rooms fours
And so it continued all day, wynde after wynde, From a room beyond came the whistle of a teakettle. Now, you really must join me. I've some marvelous Darjeeling, and some delicious petit fours a friend of mine gave me for Christmas.