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.
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Nationality: Australian Type: Novelist Born: February 7, 1943 |
As long as you're having fun and still doing stuff, it doesn't matter what other people think.
You can't fall in love after 40; you know so much about life that you can't get fooled anymore.

