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I'm someone who always wants to do everything differently. If I have a pattern, I'd rather I didn't have a pattern. I want every book to be unpredictable and new. Damn it!

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My father left school at the age of fourteen, so this was a man with no deep experience of formal education.

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My mother was the daughter of a poor schoolteacher - well, that's a tautology - a country schoolteacher.

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When I finally began to publish, my father never read my work. He'd say, 'Oh, that's your mother's sort of thing.' But my mother found the books rather upsetting. I figure she read just enough to know that she didn't want to go there.

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I got a job in advertising. So even though I was writing, I was always supporting myself. That's the thing that would matter for my father, who was absolutely a creature of the Great Depression.

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At school, I was fanatical about being a scientist.

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Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying' had an immense effect on me, and most of my novels bear the burn marks of this experience, those short chapters with their conflicting points of view, truth expressed by multiple perspectives. The other attractive thing about 'As I Lay Dying' was the way it gave rich voices to the poor.

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When I finished 'True History of the Kelly Gang,' I realised that Faulkner had not lost his power over me.

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I have no interest in writing, generally speaking, about America at all - even if it does continue to terrify me.

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When I went to live in New York, I didn't mean to stay there, but here I am.

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Novelist

Born: February 7th, 1943

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