Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.
From Aminatta Forna
I don't have very many little fetishes, but the one I do have is that I like a particular mug to drink out of. It's just a small china cup, and I get very upset if my husband moves it.
Increasingly, there are those of us who write from outside the center, and those are the writers that I'm most interested in because they bring me into worlds that I did not previously know. And that, as a writer, is what I try to create.
I get a very vague idea and - perhaps because I once was a journalist, or perhaps because that's what made me want to be a journalist - I go off and explore it for a bit, rather than mapping out a plot and then filling in the research.
What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.
I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted.
My family's a ruling family.
Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.
I'm at my desk for about 9:30 A.M., and I stay there all day. Then there's a lot of checking Facebook and eBay and that sort of thing.
I temporarily became a surgeon for 'Memory of Love'. I spent two weeks in an operating theatre, watching amputations, and I loved it.
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