I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.

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  I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.

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  I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.

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  I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just

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  I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of