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Art criticism, I would say, is about the most ungrateful form of 'elevated' writing I know of. It may also be one of the most challenging. . if only because so few people have done it well enough to be remembered. . but I'm not sure the challenge is worth it.

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There are probably a couple of things I'd never write about until everyone I know is dead. And then there's other stuff which nobody would want to read a book about anyway.

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I've never really understood that whole thing of writers avoiding other writers' novels while they're working on their own.

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Mystery, investigation, false leads, solution - we associate that structure with genre fiction, but it exists in our real lives, too. There's no reason why literary fiction shouldn't be able to acknowledge that and make it fresh.

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I love sentences. I love characters. But most of all, perhaps, I love to work on plot, and that may be where my natural gifts lie, if I have any. I like to think hard about plots in TV shows and films.

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I never really have blank page syndrome. I don't get blocked. I have a plan for my novel before I start which, although incomplete, probably contains enough material for several novels by a quieter kind of writer. And I try to get my arms around that material and see where it takes me.

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The reason I start a novel is because there's something that excites me and I want to explore it.

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