English - Journalist | November 25, 1947 -
My research process doesn't vary much. I do a little reading to establish a timeline and decide how I'm going to approach the story.
Laurie Graham
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I have a magpie mind, by which I mean I see and hear little things - photos, fragments of conversation - and store them away for future use.
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My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I find something that works.
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My early novels were very understated and English. Fourteen years ago, I met and married my American husband, and as I learned more about his background and culture, I became interested in using American voices.
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I've been lucky enough to travel widely. When you're based in Europe, it's very easy to go to Madrid or Budapest for the weekend. I also lived in Italy for ten years and now live in Ireland.
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I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are characterization and dialogue, and assists me in my admitted weakness, plot.
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I'm married to an American, and although we live in Europe, I think of myself as an honorary American.
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Even professional, paid carers aren't always models of saintly behaviour - and they know they can knock off at the end of their shift to go home, take an uninterrupted shower, and have a normal conversation with someone.
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I hate to think I ever make my husband frightened or unhappy, but I suspect I do.
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My parents never told me I was beautiful, and for one very good reason. I wasn't. When your child is a tubby, bespectacled little oddity, as I was, it's important not to give them false expectations.
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I'm thankful my parents obliged me to live with the unvarnished truth: I might not have been a looker, but I was a better speller than the prettiest girl in my class, and I was funnier, too.
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In grief, after even the happiest of relationships, we go over things again and again.
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