"I think their pasts are treated with a voice that sees their role as those of innocents. That's reflected in the past time sequences. They're less "written.""

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I've had many students over the years, sometimes even very sophisticated students, who will be writing and will hit a wall. Often I find it's because they're working out of sequence. Maybe some people can do that, but I don't think that's how fiction works. It's a discovery.

— T.C. Boyle