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• ‟ One of my favorite ways to find fictional inspiration, by the way, is to browse historical timelines. I also like world atlases - any country with a squiggly coastline seems to inspire me, as do visual dictionaries, those reclusive creatures of the reference shelf.

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• ‟ I no longer practice medicine, but I can say that, for me, medicine was easier - and certainly less emotionally turbulent - than writing.

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• ‟ 'How does your life turn out?' That's the ultimate novelistic question to me.

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• ‟ A novel, at least for me, cannot be visualized at one time.

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• ‟ Point of view gets me. If I can feel like a character rather than a reader, I'll read that book.

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• ‟ I can only remember two books from college that moved me: E.M. Forster's 'Howards End' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby.'

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• ‟ I've discovered over the years that being subject to both the adoration and the vilification actually makes me more disciplined. It makes me understand that it's the idea of writing a great book that propels me now, whereas it used to be the idea of success.

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• ‟ It's such a risk to write a novel that it's easy to become conservative - you're spending what would be, for me, a couple of years of my life on a single idea. Which is maybe one of the reasons I write stories - if it doesn't work, you've only lost a month.

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• ‟ Feeling useful in medicine allows me to not feel so stupid when making up stories.

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