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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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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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Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.
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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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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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