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" A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write. "

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" Life is not a dress rehearsal. "

" 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. "

" I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important. "

" 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. "

" Life should be embraced like a lover. "

" 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. "

" When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it. "

" The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all. "

" I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland. "

" 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. "

" I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "