Life should be embraced like a lover.

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When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.

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I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important.

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A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.

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I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

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The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.

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I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.

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The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place.

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Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings.

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I'm not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I'm always looking for territory in which to explore the BIG subjects, the life-or-death stories.

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