It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself.
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The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.Michael Ondaatje
You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel.
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Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again.
Michael Ondaatje
It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.
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In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.
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I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.
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