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I've been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don't like a lot of verbiage in there.

Kathy Reichs

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Kathy Reichs
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 7
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Anthropologist
Crime Writer
Forensic Anthropologist
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Professor
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Science Fiction Writer
Television Producer
Chicago
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I do interviews and signings and readings and all of these people just hang off my every word. And then I go home and have dinner with my family and nobody lets me get a word in.
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One of the surprising things I hadn't expected when I decided to write crime fiction is how much you are expected to be out in front of the public. Some writers aren't comfortable with that. I don't have a problem with that.
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If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get a degree in chemistry. Do you want to do DNA work? Get a degree in microbiology. And do well. Study hard and go to graduate school.
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High school popularity is so fickle.
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Many fiction writers who put the science in dont get it right.
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I tend to watch a lot of movies at home. It's nice to be close to the refrigerator with my pyjamas on and just relax.
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I have a cotillion event. Some yacht-club charity fundraiser thingy. Whitney is insisting, and Kit took her side.” Three wide smiles. “Oh shut up.
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She wanted to feel safe. Untouchable in her home. The ultimate female fantasy.
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Indecision is the key to flexibility.
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I see you, Ben. I always have. You're in my pack. He pulled away. What if being packmates isn't enough for me?
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I’m adding ‘canine’ to my searches,” I said. “And ‘instinct.’” “Whatever. I’m adding ‘lunatic.
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At first I probably seem very abrupt, but I like efficiency. There's work and there's play, and I always think: 'Let's get the work over with so we can thoroughly enjoy the play.
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Violence wounds the body and it wounds the soul. Of the predator. Of the prey. Of the mourners. Of collective humanity. It diminishes us all.
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Channel your outrage ... Do that which you are able to do.
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What gives my books authenticity is that I actually do what it is I'm writing about. I think the fact that I am in the autopsy room, I go to the crime scene and I do work in the lab gives my books this flavor that otherwise they wouldn't have.
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