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Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn’t. The fact that something is true in the real world should not lend authority to it in fiction.

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I can’t have composite characters. I can’t attribute dialogue to someone based simply on my memory and not based on notes taken at the time that the words were spoken.
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For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.
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Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.
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Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind.
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People often need to describe things quickly and so they use a shorthand. The problem is that after they use a label, they begin to think only in terms of the label instead of the totality of the experience a novel provides.
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To me exposition always contains tenderness.
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