"The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic."

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"The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic."

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"Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists."

"For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it."

"Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take for granted, indeed, hardly think about, can lead to tremendous mistakes."

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"A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past."

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