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Just because we think of wolves (or the wilderness, or another race) as wild and fierce, doesn't mean there isn't another side to them.

I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me.

I don't use real people for inspiration.

I don't think I could write about someone I didn't feel some sympathy for.

Clearly the secret of happiness ... is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping.

I definitely do feel a pull toward people and places that are far from my own life.

If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited.

Gypsies are, to say the least, underrepresented in literature and film.

Whenever I pick up a book I think, "Tell me something I don't know."

I despise this weakness in myself
this endless one-sided conversation that takes the place of action ...

It just goes to show you can't leave anything behind. You bring it all with you, whether you want to or not.