“I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.”
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I am a morning writer I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.
I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.