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I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.
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The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.
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The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.
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Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.
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It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.
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The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.
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