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"I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image."
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"What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it."

"The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem."

"It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections."

"The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire."

"As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place."

"Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly."
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