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I aim to make the fiction flexible so that it bends itself around the facts as we have them. Otherwise I don__ see the point. Nobody seems to understand that. Nobody seems to share my approach to historical fiction. I suppose if I have a maxim, it is that there isn__ any necessary conflict between good history and good drama.
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I aim to make the fiction flexible so that it bends itself around the facts as we have them. Otherwise I don__ see the point. Nobody seems to understand that. Nobody seems to share my approach to historical fiction. I suppose if I have a maxim, it is that there isn__ any necessary conflict between good history and good drama.

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