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Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.
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... →
And it's always possible that you will not get a nice review. So - and that's enraging of course, to get a bad review, you can't talk... →
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... →
I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne out of curiosity... →
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... →
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... →
One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit... →
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... →
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