Laurie R. King
Laurie R. King
Laurie R. Kingis an American author best known for her detective fiction...
NationalityAlgerian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth19 September 1952
CountryAlgeria
madness turmoil centre
...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.
phrases wells
Most damning of phrases: He meant well.
husband devil relief
Why the devil was my husband positively grinning - and with what looked remarkably like relief?
mind insult argument
Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.
madness
Eccentricty had flowered into madness.
jamaica wife bedroom
I slept in the bedroom used by Sabine Baring-Goulds wife when I was researching The Moor, and later the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor.
together stories sometimes
When you're putting together a story, sometimes you just have to skip over the boring bits.
dog lasts canine
The last dog I had was an Irish wolfhound - now that is a dog. Rather spoils a person for a lesser canine, that is, anything under a hundredweight.
spring winter gun
. . . the first spring in five free from the rumour of guns across the Channel, a spring anxious to make up for the cold winter, life bursting out after four years of death. All of England raised her face to the sun. . .
hands flesh pages
The hand of bone and sinew and flesh achieves its immortality in taking up a pen. The hand on a page wields a greater power than the fleshly hand ever could in life.
aversion machinery exception
Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.
expression silent-films plot
In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points.
pride pieces poor
Pride is a sweetmeat, to be savoured in small pieces; it makes for a poor feast.
holmes sherlock whenever
Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired.