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So often, we don't realize that the very moments in which we live become our history, our story.

I think it's good that we're sometimes reminded of important events in history.

The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.

I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.

I'm not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situations I was in.

I just have beautiful memories of what has happened in my life.

The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.