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I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination...

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Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in...

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Life should be embraced like a lover.

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

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I'm not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I'm always looking for territory...

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I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I...

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I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important.

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I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of...

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I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in...

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At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged...

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Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research,...

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I was not typical. Whatever typical or normal is, I was somehow separated and different.

#John Hawkes