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I Think Certainly If I'd Started Getting Published When I Was In My Early Twenties, I Was Quite Sheltered Then And Didn't Know Anything Much About The World. I Hadn't Had Any Direct Experience Of How The World Works.

If They Asked How I Died Tell Them: Still Angry.

For Me, Any Fiction Of Nobles And Swords Necessarily Has To Be A Story Of Corruption, Injustice And Savagely Violent Conflict - Because Any Other Treatment Is Going To Have All The Heft And Realistic Honesty Of A Bedtime Fairy Tale For Five Year Olds.

Certainly A Decade And A Half Out In The Real World, Bashing My Head Against Things, Probably Made Me Into A More Textured Writer. It Gives You Something To Write About.

The Way I See It, Anyone Who's Proud Of Their Country Is Either A Thug Or Just Hasn't Read Enough History Yet.