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She Remembered No One At All. She Remembered One Day Thinking: I Am Alone. There Is No I But I. She Lived In The Dark. She Taught Herself To Walk In The Light, Though It Was Not Easy.

I Was A 'planet Of The Apes'-obsessed Kid.

I Tend To Start At 9 O'clock In The Morning And Write Until 3. Those Are My Best Hours. They Fit The Other Rhythms Of The World. So I Write For Six Hours, Pretty Much Without Any Breaks.

This Ravishing World. This Achingly Bittersweet, Ravishing World.

If You Write A Good Action Sequence Well In A Novel, You're Already Writing It For Film, Because The Only Way To Do It Well Is To Use Some Of The Same Tricks. They're Rhetorical, Not Visual, But It's The Same Move.