![]() ![]() ![]() I intensely admire other writers… We read each other all the time. So I’m two or three hundred times more a reader than I am a writer. I write one book a year, and I read possibly two or three hundred. On reading and writing, Child said, “what people forget about being a writer is, they see your identity as a writer, and you’re not: you’re far more of a reader than a writer, always. The nicest, the best, the best informed, the most thoughtful, the most fun people are readers.” Deaver noted, “I spend most of my time in a dark room talking to myself and my dogs,” adding, “it’s very helpful to be able to get feedback from fans.” It’s a kind of self-selecting population. Asked by interviewer Jake Kerridge, Child explained his appearance by saying, “I just love to meet people that read books. Top of the Featured Guest Authors tier at CrimeFest 2018 in Bristol, celebrity crime and thriller writers Lee Child and Jeffery Deaver delivered a sustained paean to the joys of reading, and writing – in any genre or form. ![]()
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