![]() You start from scratch every time you start. The possibility of writing a bad book is continually present for everybody, all the time. I say to my students, it's not as if writing books makes me a good writer. You can only follow your own little path, which is necessarily narrow. ZS: Oh, I'm sure there are many people who hate it, but you can't really work thinking about that. MC: It's interesting that you feel like an outsider, especially because your work has been so widely accepted by the literary community. It's the people who feel that they belong very strongly who put the fear of God into me, to be honest. I don't think of that as a negative feeling. Moving between America and England is like a concrete manifestation of a feeling I've had all my life, of not really belonging anywhere. There are lots of people who feel very certain about themselves, where they're born, what it means. But I think of that as a definition of a writer: somebody not at home, not comfortable in themselves in their supposed lives, in their nation, in their bodies, in everything. ![]() ZS: I think of myself as somebody not at home, I suppose. ![]() ![]() MC: How does living in America and England change your perspective when you're writing about either place? ![]()
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