I was born 20 years after World War II had ended, and people of my generation mostly thought of it as a terrible period portrayed in documentaries you’d seen, flickering, in black and white. Christine Leunens Read Quote
It’s not ideal when art is seen as just some passing entertainment quickly thrown out into the market, like a consumer object. You have to let things settle and think about them. Christine Leunens Read Quote
Then it’s very easy to point fingers at other people and use this kind of rhetoric, infestation and comparing people to rodents, insects, showing them as very undesirable people – not people who feel the same, who care about their families too, no, but as people who are different and less human, to dehumanize them. Christine Leunens Read Quote
So I’m working on another historical novel. This one’s a Franco-New Zealand novel, and it takes place at the time of the Rainbow Warrior bombing in New Zealand. Christine Leunens Read Quote
I think what happens is when you have fear, fear translates into hatred. Christine Leunens Read Quote
However, for my characters to have depth, they have to be human and complex, have both qualities and flaws, do the right things at times, and at others, things they’ll regret having done and not necessarily know how to undo. Christine Leunens Read Quote
Write something and leave it aside so you’ve practically forgotten it as much as possible, a month or so, then come back and read it as if you’re reading it for the first time. Christine Leunens Read Quote
