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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business.
- Innocence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.
- Really
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really do work in solitude.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.
- Centered
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- Nov 07, 2020
To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.
- Nov 07, 2020
But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020