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- Drafts
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at.
- About A Year
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spend about a year between novels.
- Examining
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
- Blood
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- Nov 07, 2020
For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.
- Class
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- Nov 07, 2020