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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.

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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

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I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.

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When writing about historical characters I try to be as accurate as possible, and in particular not to misrepresent the view they held. With a real historical figure you have to be fair, and this is not an obligation you have in dealing with your own creations, so it is quite different.

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I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever thought I would write historical fiction. I never thought I might write academic history because I simply wasn't good enough!

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'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book.

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Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

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What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.

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That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: May 8th, 1943

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