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— Jose Emilio Pacheco"The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history... the history of private life ... and in that sense every novel is an historical novel."
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You think you're writing one historical novel and it turns into three, and I'm quite used to a short story turning into a novel - that's happened through my whole career.
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I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.
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