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" For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that. "
Within
Never
Me
" I'm quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I've coined a rather hideous word for it - a paraquel. "
Another
Word
Rather
" In Victorian fiction, there would be a chapter at the end devoted to righting all of the wrongs. I thought to right all of the wrongs would be too glib. I thought it would be better to lull the reader into thinking that is the way it would work, but then not to do that. "
Thinking
Work
Thought
" I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.' "
Think
I Think
Word
" Living with my grandmother in Bath, I sort of thought I was living in the 19th century. My grandmother was someone who, in a way, was rather defiantly trying to live a pre-World War I existence. "
Trying
War
Bath
" To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if I can write it; otherwise, I won't want to. "
Interesting
Doing
I Can
" Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor. "
Victorian
Who
People
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