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• ‟ I went to work in 1962, and by '64 I was writing all the time, every night and every weekend. It didn't occur to me that, having read nothing and knowing nothing, I was in no position to write a book.

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• ‟ I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.

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• ‟ What I find really attractive is something that's going to be a little dangerous. Something that might get me into trouble; you know, you turn up in London and you've just rewritten Dickens. And, of course, then you think, 'What have I done?'

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• ‟ I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne out of curiosity, some investigation into the past.

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• ‟ When I finished 'True History of the Kelly Gang,' I realised that Faulkner had not lost his power over me.

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• ‟ I have no interest in writing, generally speaking, about America at all - even if it does continue to terrify me.

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• ‟ I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.

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