“Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.”
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My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.
But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.
