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Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.", Eighth Series, ed. ...more

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I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone and using my imaginati...more

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The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

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A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems at the beginning.

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If you're a writer, the problem is that, when you try to call a halt to thinking about your novel-in-progress, your imagination still keeps going; you...more

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It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Bevore you can write anything, you have to notice something.

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Novels are just another kind of cross-dressing, aren't they?