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" There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to. "

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" I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It's not that you say, 'I want to write a science fiction book.' You start from the other end, and what you have to say dictates the form of it. "

" I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I. "

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