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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In about 1975-76, I lived with a woman in a little hut with some fruit trees, and I had some of the most extraordinary, happy times of my life. Apart from the horrendous Queensland police, who were corrupt and venal, it really was like living in paradise.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always pity people who have to write my plot synopses.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like how they are. I think they're great. And their communities are communities. I have a greater sense of community in New York than almost anywhere I've ever lived. Really, it's terrific.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understand the chemistry lectures I decided that I would be a zoologist, because zoologists seemed like life-loving people.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to work in 1962, and by '64 I was writing all the time, every night and every weekend. It didn't occur to me that, having read nothing and knowing nothing, I was in no position to write a book.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the process, of course, I discover all sorts of bigger and more substantial things.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three hours, that's enough. I can't do any more. At the end of the day I might tinker with my morning's work and maybe write some again. But I think three hours is fine.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but no one writes a novel to dramatically illustrate what everybody already knows.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I find really attractive is something that's going to be a little dangerous. Something that might get me into trouble; you know, you turn up in London and you've just rewritten Dickens. And, of course, then you think, 'What have I done?'
- Fame
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020