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I know people heal by being able to tell the story - the whole story.
I want to make sure people know I don't think I have any magic powers. I just have a story that I share.
If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.
People don't know what to do when writing a story with teens that takes place now - they think you have to make a bunch of references to Facebook.
When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century.
I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week. You get used to interviewing lots of different people about a lot of different things. And they aren't things you know about until you do the story.
Poland is a wildly dramatic and tragic story. It's just unbelievable what went on with those people. How they survive, I don't really know. The Germans had a particular hatred for the Poles; they really considered them subhuman Slavs, and they were very brutal to them.