Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close to you, what you are told, what you have read, all mixed together into this kind of soup which, like any good soup, at the end you cannot really disting
It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.