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The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel.

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I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to me that there was at least one similarity between us and that was that Dickens loved to write and wrote with the ease and conviction of breathing. Me, too.

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Writing novels is an essentially amateur activity.

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A novelist has two lives — a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.

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Born: September 26, 1949 (age 75)
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