I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.

That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and you can suddenly be inside the most inner part of the most inner life of a person. What does it feel like there, and what are the regrets and sensations and longings, and what is the music of it?

I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well.

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