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I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned.
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No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written.
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I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.
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I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?
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I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.
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I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
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I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself.
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I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.