Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if you're charming enough, you can get away with anything.

I've never written a book with an outline or a predetermined theme. It's only in retrospect that themes or subjects become identifiable. That's the fun of it: discovering what's next. I'm often surprised by plot developments I would not have dreamed of starting out, but that, in the course of the writing, come to seem inevitable.

I start with characters, and then I start writing, and then, if I'm lucky, things start to happen.

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