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'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late.
I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.
When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
I don't sound disloyal, but I've never had a pair of Marvel pyjamas or underwear. I do have a lot of Marvel figurines at home in a cabinet. Every time they make a new Marvel figure I put it in my cabinet.
I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
I was married for 18 years to a woman who wanted me to get sober for all 18 years and I never did. She finally came to her senses and divorced me.
With memoir, you have the clay of your life to work with. When you're writing a novel, you have to make the clay first.
In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.
I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only a few days to correct that impression.
