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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes people ask, 'Does writing make you happy?' But I think that's beside the point. It makes you agitated, and continually in a state where you're off balance. You seldom feel serene or settled.
- Rational
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
What fascinates me are the turning points where history could have been different.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a child, there was very little money, so I've always been concerned for my financial security, which has meant that finding myself as a writer was a bad move. The practical difference the money has made is that I can support myself by fiction. That is what I have been trying to do throughout my life.
- French Revolution
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to write historical novels because I can't do plots.' But in the six years of writing that novel, I actually learned to write, to invent things.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
The novelist has a responsibility to adhere to the facts as closely as possible, and if they are inconvenient, that's where the art comes in. You must work with intractable facts and find the dramatic shape inside them.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is difficult to know how the Tudors actually spoke because we're going back before Shakespeare; much of the drama from that period is courtly, allegorical.
- Nov 07, 2020
Psychics tap into what is collective: our regret and our sense of time going by; our common repression and anxieties.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood gave me a very powerful sense of being spooked. I didn't know whether what I was seeing were sensory images of other people's unhappiness. Perhaps that was just the way the world manifested itself to me.
- Mad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I'm mad.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing comes from that territory of being invalidated. But I had a sense of purpose, too. I wanted to stop apologising for my health, and I thought I might do some good.
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020