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"I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture - which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along."
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"Write and create a blue sky Forever with joy where I can fly."
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"A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents."
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"Wondering leads to writing."
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"Writings are thoughts in a defined moment."
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"Every great writer is a great reader."
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"When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'"
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"Until you begin to write, then you will see the beauty of writing."
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"What you listen in heart, are echoes of the past.What you write today, will be echoed in the future."
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"Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor."
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"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
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"Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings."
Research
"When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it."
Love
"I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture - which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along."
Writing
"So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right sources and the necessary time for the initial research."
History
"I'm not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I'm always looking for territory in which to explore the BIG subjects, the life-or-death stories."
Life
"The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place."
Time
"Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female."
Dream
"Life should be embraced like a lover."
Life
"A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write."
Dream
"Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel."
Potential
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