I was kind of discouraged and I let it go.
I tried again a few years later and it just wasnt sticking.
Eventually, back in 2016 suddenly I was inspired.
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I was riding a train and a woman sat next to me and we started talking.
She got up two stops later but something just hit me that this was a good story to write.
How does the plot inFind Mecompare to your earlier attempts at the story?The originals were very different.
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I had to situate him and I didnt want to put him in Italy because Id already done that.
I put him in an American college, and then he became a grad student and then so on.
What research did you do to write those portions?I never do research, I really never do.
Even in my memoir, I didnt do any research.
I just based it on frivolous, stupid gossip.
I love gossip and that usually gives me all the historical pointers.
It may be totally wrong I dont care.
Thats the only way I know how to write.
Or it becomes like a 19th-century novel where the narrator knows everything but thats not that interesting.
I think first-person allows you to go into their very private head.
Im more insecure than Ive ever been.
And hes saying it in such a way that he kind of surprised himself by this fact.
There are 22-25,000 of them around the world and they tour to Italy every year.
Theyre having a big event in June of 2020 to which I was invited.
Now did I expect any of this?
I wrote the book in 2005 so the eldest of my kids was about 14.
We truly are very close.
And, its wonderful all of them write extremely well.
I dont notice things, I dont see things that everybody else sees.
But what I give a shot to do conversely is to give you asenseof the place.
Its the rhythm of the sentences that, for me, suggest what the time is like.
InCMBYNIll tell you there is the smell of coffee, you see sunflowers and lavender.
And thats all I say.
The music of the sentences makes you feel, theres something Italian here.
I think that everybody was perfect, they all played their roles with a great deal of sensitivity.
Hes become so famous and so successful and its deserved.
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