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• ‟ I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories.

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• ‟ Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.

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• ‟ Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.

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• ‟ Sometimes people ask, 'Does writing make you happy?' But I think that's beside the point. It makes you agitated, and continually in a state where you're off balance. You seldom feel serene or settled.

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• ‟ Like every writer, I'm drawn by unlikely juxtapositions, precisely-dated and once-only collisions between people from different worlds.

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