- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
In general, the main themes emerge early for each book, even before the storyline and characters, as I research the time and place I want to draw upon. Having said that, every single book so far has offered me surprises en route, and these include motifs that come forward as I am writing.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Significant consequences can begin very inconsequentially. That's one thing that fascinates me. The other thing that fascinates me is how accident can undermine something that's unfolding, something that might have played out differently otherwise.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very best way I can make any reader believe in the nuts and bolts of an art form... is to know the mechanics, to make the characters grounded in convincing detail.
- Pleasure
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I am reading for research and making notes, I use a cleverly designed curved lap-desk, and I sit up dutifully, mindful of ergonomics and suchlike concepts. When reading for pleasure, I take advantage of the 'recline' in recliner.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know a writer who doesn't feel some sense of glamour and magic and a complex, wistful sadness emanating from the expats of the twenties in France. Some of the sadness, of course, is that we weren't there.
- Chair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ruefully admit that if the cat is asleep in my chair - which she regards as hers, of course - I tend to leave her there and take the other one.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.
- Balance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want readers turning pages until three o'clock in the morning. I want the themes of books to stick around for a reader. I'm always trying to find a way to balance characters and theme.
- Boundaries
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've spent my whole literary career blurring boundaries between genres and categories.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do we value privacy in any real way? Thinking about blogs, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace... all these suggest we value exposure rather more. And instead of challenging this transformation, as they are supposed to - certainly at the more thoughtful edges of the art - novelists are buying into it wholesale.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we work with history, to a very great degree we are all guessing. But by using motifs of time and history in a fantasy setting, we are acknowledging that this educated guesswork, invention, fantasy underlie our treatment of the past and its peoples - and we are not claiming a right to do with them as we will.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those truths are complex and morally difficult. It offers a different route to creating something which will resonate with readers, in a way which resists the erasure of privacy and autonomy which pervades our modern world.
- Coming Of Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I don't think there's any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent many years writing and directing in radio drama, so I am comfortable with an audience or a microphone, but I do worry about the blurring of an author's public persona with the work itself. A good 'performer' can make a mediocre book sound strong, and a shy author can leave listeners missing the excellence of his or her writing.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never talk about books in progress. I could decide to change it to a series of seafood recipes, after all.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poems were the only thing I wrote that was not for everyone else. Then my editors at Penguin, who were also friends and had seen several of them, aggressively urged me to do a book. Editors can be aggressive, especially after drinks. That's how 'Beyond This Dark House' appeared.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a level at which, if you take poetry seriously, the focus it involves... that never goes away.
- Common Denominator
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator in all of them.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's worth being suspicious of writers - or anyone! - who does that myth-making thing. There's always a tendency to retrospectively impose structures on a life. Life as it's lived has a far more complex shape.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 18 years old, in a more innocent time, my first backpacking trip through Europe, I sneaked into the Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum after nightfall and spent several hours in there avoiding the guards patrolling.
- Fang
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm happier not pretending I know anything about El Cid in Spain. He's a Spanish national hero. I'd rather invent a character inspired by him but clearly not identical to him. And then I feel liberated creatively.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020