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“Clearly the secret of happiness...is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping.”

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Just because we think of wolves (or the wilderness, or another race) as wild and fierce, doesn't mean there isn't another side to them.

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I definitely do feel a pull toward people and places that are far from my own life.

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I don't think I could write about someone I didn't feel some sympathy for.

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“He smiled to show he meant no offense, but Scott takes offense like it is going out of style, and bristled.”

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Whenever I pick up a book I think, "Tell me something I don't know."

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Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly…

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...it just goes to show you can't leave anything behind. You bring it all with you, whether you want to or not.

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I love research, and in fact it's liberating because you have to create your own world. No one can say "I've just got back…

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I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me.

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I don't use real people for inspiration.

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If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited.

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Gypsies are, to say the least, underrepresented in literature and film.

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