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The Pleasure Of Writing Fiction Is That You Are Always Spotting Some New Approach, An Alternative Way Of Telling A Story And Manipulating Characters; The Novel Is Such A Wonderfully Flexible Form.

The Past Is Our Ultimate Privacy; We Pile It Up, Year By Year, Decade By Decade, It Stows Itself Away, With Its Perverse Random Recall System.

Every Novel Generates Its Own Climate, When You Get Going.

Mythology Is Much Better Stuff Than History. It Has Form; Logic; A Message.

It Seems To Me That Everything That Happens To Us Is A Disconcerting Mix Of Choice And Contingency.