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 |
“The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.”
“The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.”