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Life is not a dress rehearsal.
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Inspirational
Life
Leadership
Dresses
Rehearsal
Dress
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Life should be embraced like a lover.
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Lovers
Should
Lover
Embraced
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Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted "first readers".
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Criticism
Firsts
Preference
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When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.
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Affair
Kind
Love Affair
Pieces
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Kept falling in and out of it [sleep] like out of a boat or a tipping hammock.
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Fall
Hammocks
Sleep
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I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important.
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Intense
Drawn
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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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Dream
Research
Writing
Years
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I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.
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Character
Contemporary
Difficult
Way
Inhabit
Successfully
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In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.
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Book
Planning
Stage
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The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.
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Enjoyable
Existential
Existentialism
Panic
Rewriting
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I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.
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Amazed
Bland
Always Must Me
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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.
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Novel
Rehabilitation
Stories
Unfolding
Regardless
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Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak.
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Details
People
Writing
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There is something about the unexpected that moves us. As if the whole of existence is paid for in some way, except for that one moment, which is free.
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Moving
Unexpected
Way
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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.
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Acquire
Real
Research
Setting
Surroundings
Slowly
Immediate
Potentially
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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.
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Day To Day
Familiar
Subjects
Territory
Explore
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Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.
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Firsts
Stuff
Writing
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And she did not want him to think her quite mad, only a little unique, only containing within her just that measure of the unexpected sufficient to make her irreplaceable.
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Mad
Thinking
Unique
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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.
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Book
Empty
Empty Space
Engaged
Ideas
Screenplays
Writing
Barely
Formed
Fully
New Idea
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Writing is a strange synthesis between the two parts of your mind: the analytical side and the side that knows nothing at all, and you have to allow the dreaming side free rein.
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Dream
Two
Writing
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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.
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Dream
Believe
Character
Female
Our Dreams
All Writers
Male
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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.
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Fertile
Research
Territory
Thinking
Time History Me
Initial
Provided
Sources
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The imagination conjures gifts; what the ungrateful, unsentimental part of the mind has to do is to unwrap them, find fault with them, see them for what they are and then alter them.
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Imagination
Mind
Ungrateful
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Respect the way characters may change once they've got 50 pages of life in them. Revisit your plan at this stage and see whether certain things have to be altered to take account of these changes.
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Character
May
Pages
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Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know.' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going to enhance your understanding of the world and write about that.
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Understanding
World
Writing
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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.
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Journey
Destination
Notion
Revelations
Series
Whole
Writing
Picture
Arrive
Emerges
Goes
Gradually
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When an idea comes, spend silent time with it. Remember Keats's idea of Negative Capability and Kipling's advice to "drift, wait and obey". Along with your gathering of hard data, allow yourself also to dream your idea into being.
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Dream
Data
Writing
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Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel.
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Human Beings
Mysterious
Spiritual
True Potential
Unexplained
Always Me True
Beings
Drawn
Fraction
Scheme
Me True Always
Importantly
Include
Minds
Realise
Remain
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Pace is crucial. Fine writing isn't enough. Writing students can be great at producing a single page of well-crafted prose; what they sometimes lack is the ability to take the reader on a journey, with all the changes of terrain, speed and mood that a long journey involves. Again, I find that looking at films can help. Most novels will want to move close, linger, move back, move on, in pretty cinematic ways.
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Journey
Moving
Writing
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