There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based … - William Trevor

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Before any movie of yours gets made, it will be vetted by the studio's marketing department. So, you do have to answer the question: Who is your movie for?

William Trevor

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

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I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.

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I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.

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Memories can be everything if we choose to make them so. But you are right: you mustn't do that. That is for me, and I shall do it.

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I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment.

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By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You're sort of a predator, an invader of people.

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