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Patricia Lockwood Q&A
Patricia Lockwood speaks about the Booker Prize-longlisted No One is Talking About This, and her inspiration behind the novel
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Patricia Lockwood speaks about the Booker Prize-longlisted No One is Talking About This, and her inspiration behind the novel
‘I’ve just updated the fable for the age of pandemics, exoplanets, and mass extinction’
‘I knew I wanted to make the line between fact and fiction imperceptible’
‘I’m sadly incapable of planning my books. I just have to leap and then hope I’m able to resolve all the problems.’
‘In film, the point-of-view jumps and changes all the time - why not in a novel?’
‘The best approach for me would be to simplify the story as far as possible, much as one might see done in a poem’
‘I view each book I write as a kind of apprenticeship to writers I want to emulate’
‘I liked the idea of the book being somehow spoken, as to a friend’
‘I wanted to do justice to the characters I had in my head’
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