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" A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write. "
Two
Dream
Me
" Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings. "
Real
Me
My Own
" At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet. "
Writing
Book
Head
" I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel. "
Character
Novel
Way
" I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture - which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along. "
Writing
Picture
Destination
" I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland. "
Feel
Plan
Beginning
" I'm not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I'm always looking for territory in which to explore the BIG subjects, the life-or-death stories. "
Always
Looking
Reality
" I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important. "
Intense
Important
Writing
" Life is not a dress rehearsal. "
Rehearsal
Life
Dress
" Life should be embraced like a lover. "
Lover
Embraced
Life
" Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female. "
Believe
Walk
Myself
" Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel. "
Spiritual
Potential
Me
" So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right sources and the necessary time for the initial research. "
Happy
Think
Research
" The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all. "
Because
Novel
You
" The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place. "
Time
Place
Story
" When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it. "
Work
Kind
Finished
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