"Every role is approached in exactly the same way, you have to make it believable and that's all. Acting is really serious, like, pretending really hard."

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You can't have a novel without real, believable people, and once you get into either too theoretical a novel or too philosophical a novel, you get into the dangers that the French novel has discovered in the past 50 or 60 years. And you get into a sort of aridity. No, you have to have real, identifiable people to whom the reader reacts in a way as if they were real people.

— Julian Barnes