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Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Imagination
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Nov 07, 2020

The historical background is one of the easier aspects of writing a novel. Far more difficult is dreaming up the smaller, character-based scenes, scenes that rise entirely from one's own imagination.

Coastline
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Nov 07, 2020

One of my favorite ways to find fictional inspiration, by the way, is to browse historical timelines. I also like world atlases - any country with a squiggly coastline seems to inspire me, as do visual dictionaries, those reclusive creatures of the reference shelf.

Medicine
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Nov 07, 2020

I no longer practice medicine, but I can say that, for me, medicine was easier - and certainly less emotionally turbulent - than writing.

Knowledge
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Nov 07, 2020

In medicine, there's a fairly large but still finite body of knowledge that you need at hand for most of your daily work. It takes a few years to learn it, but once it's there, it's there. With writing, on the other hand, every new book - indeed, every new story - is a fresh and terrifying reinvention of everything.

Knows
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Nov 07, 2020

No one knows why books do well.

Important
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Nov 07, 2020

It's nice when critics say 'Emperor of the Air' is an important book of stories.

Perspective
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Nov 07, 2020

Fame is a problem of perspective.

Never
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Nov 07, 2020

I was never writing for commercial success. It's nice that it has come, but it is not important.

Nov 07, 2020

In medical school, you're taught to write in this convoluted, Latinate way. I knew the vocabulary as well as anyone, but I would write kidney instead of nephric. I insisted on using English.

Name
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't have a pen name, so I'm thinking of getting a doctor's name. What would you call that, a stethoscope name?

Like
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Nov 07, 2020

I like certain people's work better than my own.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

It used to be you sat up in your attic and wrote and went down to a local cafe and talked with people there.

King
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Nov 07, 2020

Books were king, but now movies are king, and books are sort of ignored. So now there's no sense of a welcoming community where you live.

Interesting
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Nov 07, 2020

What's more interesting than the arc of lives?

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

'How does your life turn out?' That's the ultimate novelistic question to me.

More
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't think success makes one confident. I think it has more to do with character than circumstance.

Everyone
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Nov 07, 2020

If you try to write a novel in L.A., you're a chump; everyone is speeding by, and you're driving a rickshaw.

Facts
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Nov 07, 2020

No matter what writers say, most stories are about ourselves. The facts might change a little, but not much.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

I like writing about the evil lurking in apparently good people.

Never
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Nov 07, 2020

Families tend to artificially divide the world, imbuing one member with all the attributes and another with all the faults. But it's never that way.

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