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The Great Thing About Using The Past Is That It Gives You The Most Colossal Freedom To Invent. The Research Is Necessary, Of Course, But No One Writes A Novel To Dramatically Illustrate What Everybody Already Knows.

Then I Fell In Love And Everything Went To Hell.

It's Like Standing On The Edge Of A Cliff. This Is Especially True Of The First Draft. Every Day You're Making Up The Earth You're Going To Stand On.

So In The First Draft, I'm Inventing People And Place With A Broad Schematic Idea Of What's Going To Happen. In The Process, Of Course, I Discover All Sorts Of Bigger And More Substantial Things.

I Thought I Would Be An Organic Chemist. I Went Off To University, And When I Couldn't Understand The Chemistry Lectures I Decided That I Would Be A Zoologist, Because Zoologists Seemed Like Life-loving People.