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- There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.
- Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted, strange or alien?…
- There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan facilities you could…
- I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of…
- I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.
- Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.
- I have very fond memories of swimming in Walden Pond when we lived in Boston. You'd swim past a log and see all these turtles…
- My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write a poem! Make…
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