"I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people work."

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It takes a certain kind of mind to narrate, to work through character motivation, to be unforgiving to one's writer-self when it comes down to creating the minutiae of detail. Writing fiction requires stamina, a sense of how people's lives work, how people work toward and against one another and, above all, precision.

— Cate Marvin