- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
When writing about historical characters I try to be as accurate as possible, and in particular not to misrepresent the view they held. With a real historical figure you have to be fair, and this is not an obligation you have in dealing with your own creations, so it is quite different.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever thought I would write historical fiction. I never thought I might write academic history because I simply wasn't good enough!
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020