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I wouldn't mind an original letter from Napoleon to Josephine - in the early days, his letters arrived torn to pieces because he was overwhelmed by his passion for her.

I've been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

I've always been writing.

I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.

I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.

What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.

If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.