The novelist,61, on keyboard-invading cats, or thieving pigeons,not looking in mirrors and getting on badly with GodWriting isn’t as solitary as people think. When I’m writing fiction my intellect is whirling with characters, and often I find they’re more real to me than the people out the window.
I had a problem after Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. To promote it, and I had to recede out so much my train of thought was constantly being interrupted. I worried whether I’d recede back to writing properly. And I needed to – the film didn’t make as much impact as people believe. You don’t salvage as wealthy as you hope.
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Source: theguardian.com