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I once dreamed a whole short story. Wrapped in its peculiar atmosphere, as if draped in clouds, I walked entranced to my desk at about 4 A.M. and typed it on to the screen.

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I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'

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When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.

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It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives of other women around you have these distinct phases.

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I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out all the background details and the biographies of the people involved there, and I try to run up all the accounts side by side to see where the contradictions are, and to look where things have gone missing.

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Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.

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Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.

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My thoughts have been the thing I can rely on.

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I think if I hadn't become a writer I would just have suppressed that part of my personality. I think I would have put it in a box that I never opened.

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Sometimes people ask, 'Does writing make you happy?' But I think that's beside the point. It makes you agitated, and continually in a state where you're off balance. You seldom feel serene or settled.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: July 6th, 1952

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