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Each new book is a tremendous challenge.

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If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

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Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

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There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

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Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.

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I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.

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My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.

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There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite.

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However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience.

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Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: March 2nd, 1943

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