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• ‟ I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it.

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• ‟ So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the process, of course, I discover all sorts of bigger and more substantial things.

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• ‟ I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understand the chemistry lectures I decided that I would be a zoologist, because zoologists seemed like life-loving people.

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• ‟ I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life.

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• ‟ There are people that you don't like because you're jealous of them until you meet them. And you haven't read their book because it's had so much attention. Then you meet them and discover they've been jealous of you, and you become friends.

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• ‟ I always pity people who have to write my plot synopses.

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