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I don't like characters who are either good or bad. I just don't experience that in life, so my writing hasn't evolved that way.
I'm a family-based person, even though we didn't exactly have a very happy family. I was never in any doubt that this was a centre of writing.
Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing.
I never know what I'm going to write next. If I'm still writing the book but I'm very near the end, and I begin to think of what I'd like to do next, then I'll know that what I'm writing is in hand. I'll think of an ending and it will be fine.
I know I should feel anger at my father for certain things. But since he died when I was 11, I never got to that point.
Writers keep writing and publishers publishing - it never grows boring.
The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.
You want to challenge experts, because experts get a lot wrong. Doctors misdiagnose one time in five. In the U.S. and Canada, 50,000 people die every year who would not have had to.
