I Loved Gore Vidal's Burr. That Book

It Is Almost A Joke, But A Joke That Nobody Tells.

For Me, It Is About Using Everything That Is There And Using The Gaps In The Record, Figuring Out Why The Gaps Might Be There. And Then When You Move On To The Level Of What Historians Said, Laying The Interpretations Side By Side. You Also Have To Look Back At The Documents And Make Your Own Judgments. What The Record Says And What People Say About It. A Novelist Can Fill The Gaps In A Way That A Biographer Cannot.

Imagination Only Comes When You Privilege The Subconscious, When You Make Delay And Procrastination Work For You.

I'm A Very Organised And Rational And Linear Thinker And You Have To Stop All That To Write A Novel.

Fiction Leaves Us So Much Work To Do, Allows The Individual So Much Input; You Have To See, You Have To Hear, You Have To Taste The Madeleine, And While You Are Seemingly Passive In Your Chair, You Have To Travel.