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 |
“Anybody can have a birthday. It requires nothing. Murderers have birthdays. It's the opposite of anything that I believe in. And I don't like at work where you stop everything to sing 'Happy Birthday' to someone. I feel like that's for children.”
“I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.”