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I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne out of curiosity, some investigation into the past.

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I'm interested in where we are, where we're going, where we've come from.

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And it's always possible that you will not get a nice review. So - and that's enraging of course, to get a bad review, you can't talk back, and it's sort of shaming in a way.

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Australia is my lens. I cannot see the world any other way.

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I woke up in Australia almost every day for the first 47 years of my life. When I left, I didn't discard that, didn't reject that, didn't forget that. Not even New York City can wipe that out.

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The Australian cast of mind is not something I would want to be without - and I couldn't be without. It's not a choice.

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When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'

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I think there was, and there is, a real Commonwealth culture. It's different. America doesn't really feel to be a part of that.

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The failure of the U.S.'s foreign adventures often seems to have its roots in the U.S.'s total ignorance of things on the ground, of the countries that they fiddle with.

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I would be the worst person on earth to be called to write an account of someone else's life.

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Novelist

Born: February 7th, 1943

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