Writing in Technicolor

I write in Technicolor.

Perhaps I should explain.Like mostwriters of my generation, my sense of narrative – not to mention my writing style -has been greatly influenced bycinema. If you asked me to listthe stories that have had the greatest influence on me, I’d be as likely to cite George Lucas’s Star Warsas John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, or Akira Kurosawa’sRanas George Orwell’s1984. For me, fiction blurs past both frame by frame, and one wordafter the next, both at the same time.

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