The great exemplar here is Alice Munro – you can read a story of hers, 30 pages or so, and realise that, almost without your noticing, a character’s whole lifetime seems to have passed. The first is you have a greater confidence in your ability to move through time. You also mistrust memory more than when you were younger: you realise that it resembles an act of the imagination rather than a matter of simple mental recuperation.Īnd when it comes to writing, two things may happen, and with luck do. You think more about time and memory about what time does to memory, and memory does to time. Various things change you as a person and a writer as you age. My previous novel had come out six years before, and was the longest I had written. I published The Sense of an Ending in 2011, when I was 65.
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