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'I express my thinking indirectly in my novels'

19 August 2013

'When I was at primary school my father gave me a broken alarm clock and I used to take it apart and put it back together again. When I think of a plot I think of its components, which can be characters or incidents. The important thing is never to force a component into a place where it will not fit...

I'm a novelist and I express my thinking indirectly in my novels. I don't need to spell it out. I don't know whether I'll take up this disaster in my fiction or not - the important thing is never to pretend that it didn't happen.'

Keigo Higashimo, author of The Devotion of Suspect X, in The Times