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 |
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

