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I hate it when characters know things but only reveal them when it's convenient to the story. I'd never do that. That's cheating.
- Simon Toyne
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The author always knows more than the reader does at the start of a novel, and gradually, they share that knowledge with the reader - that's storytelling.
- Simon Toyne
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'The Searcher,' as the title suggests, is about someone in search of something, and I have always loved quest stories and so was drawn to writing one myself.
- Simon Toyne
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#Loved
#Myself
#Search
#Someone
'Sanctus' deals with creation myths in every culture. It fascinates me that all cultures, evolving independently, have similar models of mankind's origins, of a Greater Being, of the flood, and so on. It's amazing how they crop up time and time again.
- Simon Toyne
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#Culture
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#Time
I knew from my television work that I could sit down and put words on paper but didn't know if I had the talent to tell a story in novel form.
- Simon Toyne
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#Talent
#Television
#Words
#Work
I looked back at the years since I'd left college and thought of the list of things I'd have liked to do. I'd always wanted to write a book - not a small undertaking. I never felt I had the time or creative energy to spare in order to write one as well as I wanted.
- Simon Toyne
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#Book
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#Never
#Time
Quest stories are about the oldest form of narrative there is, and they're also the perfect metaphor for life because we're all on a journey trying to figure out where we're going and who we are. 'Solomon Creed' is just doing it with more danger and guns involved.
- Simon Toyne
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#Life
#Perfect
#Trying
As a television producer, you do a lot of writing - drafting proposals for pilot shows and other things, so yes, a good deal of writing was involved.
- Simon Toyne
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#Good
#Pilot
#Television
#Writing
I'm certainly not the first author to tiptoe into the conspiratorial, religious-tinged territory, but - and I hate to break this to the faithful - neither is Dan Brown.
- Simon Toyne
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#First
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If, after five years, I hadn't had anything published, I was just going to forget it and go back to TV full-time until I retired or they put me out to pasture.
- Simon Toyne
#Anything
#Back
#Forget
#Go
#Me
All writers steal. You might as well steal from the best.
- Simon Toyne
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#Might
#Steal
#Well
#Writers
Epic stories, especially 'quest narratives' like 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey,' are brilliant structures for storytelling. The quest lends itself to episodic storytelling.
- Simon Toyne
#Brilliant
#Like
#Quest
#Storytelling
My family and I live in a wing of a Georgian mansion in East Sussex, which was built in the 1780s and fell into disrepair. It was rescued in the Seventies and carved into six terrace houses.
- Simon Toyne
#Family
#Live
#Seventies
#Six
#Terrace
I figured if I write a modern thriller but spliced in the DNA of a classic western - the drifter who comes into town with secrets - I could do something interesting with both genres. Westerns are also an incarnation of the classic knight errant tale, the lone warrior with a moral code, and I love those types of stories.
- Simon Toyne
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#Love
#Moral
#Secrets
#Warrior
I think 'The Searcher' is a departure from my first because it's less grounded in religion and is far more rooted in the mythic tradition: more of an existential thriller where the main character is actually the central mystery, and his journey is all about trying to figure himself out.
- Simon Toyne
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#Journey
#Mystery
#Religion
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