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- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never been depressed or thrown a plate, which I attribute to the cathartic effects of writing books about people whose lives are more grueling than mine.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way to my heart is through Belgian milk chocolate.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate desks; they make me feel like a child doing homework.
- Nov 07, 2020
I read three books a week.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.
- Come
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids delight in 'magical thinking', whether in the form of the Tooth Fairy or the saints: whether you see these as comforting lies or eternal verities, they are part of how we help kids make sense of the world.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to them by definition, because if you're trying to summarize something for your 1-year-old, you put it in very simple terms. You only gradually complicate the explanation as they get older.
- Huge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's going to happen in each chapter and each scene.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm constantly saying, 'I read a fascinating article in 'The New Yorker'... ' I say it so often that sometimes I think I have nothing interesting to say myself, I merely regurgitate 'The New Yorker.'
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ah yes, the paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence.
- Meet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come out of an academic background, and I'm aware that what I'm doing is simultaneously research and fiction. I want to meet both those obligations.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just lets you get on with it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing I like about historical fiction is that I'm not constantly focusing on me, or people like me; you're obliged to concentrate on lives that are completely other than your own.
- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.
- Full-Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been writing full-time since I was 23.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the only difference between me and other people is that when I hear of an interesting historical incident, I immediately write it down and Google it.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.
- Shame
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember a period where my publisher said to me, 'Look, your historical work is selling much better than your contemporary work, so please give us more historicals.'
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say I have sort of a natural gift for character, and following one person's point of view at a time, and dialogue, but I'm not naturally good at strong plot.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm named after Jane Austen's Emma, and I've always been able to relate to her. She's strong, confident but quite tactless.
- Consider
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's painful to consider anything but writing.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not at all snobby about book prizes and how they pollute the world of literature. Just like with the Olympics, a little bit of competition gets people truly engrossed in the business of literature.
- Ideal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020