Christopher Woodall – Why I Write

It took years, decades, for him — while he morphed into me — to grasp that his project was fiction and there was no pattern to follow. It took years, decades, for him — while he morphed into me — to grasp that his project was fiction and there was no pattern to follow. If a novel, it would deserve that name. I was never tempted, for example, to foreground one or more of my ‘people’.

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