Ask the Author: Tom Milton
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Tom Milton
I would travel around with Graham Greene from country to country, taking notes and talking with him.
Tom Milton
My list begins with Complete Prose of Alexander Pushkin, which should occupy me for a while, and Beartown by Fredrik Backman, author of the novel on the which the film "A Man Called Ove" was based.
Tom Milton
I have never been able to find out what happened to a person who disappeared from my life thirty years ago. By now, I can only imagine, and that could be a plot for a book.
Tom Milton
I have been blessed with never having had writer's block. My wife would add that I have never had talker's block.
Tom Milton
The joy of the craft, which as Chaucer said, takes a lifetime to learn.
Tom Milton
My advice, which I got from mentors, is if you want to be a writer, write. And write about things that hurt you.
Tom Milton
I'm currently working on a novel in which a young woman discovers that her fiancé, who outwardly survived the war in Afghanistan, was invisibly wounded. The title of the novel is Invisible Wounds.
Tom Milton
I'm usually inspired by a person I have known in a situation where her values were tested. The actual person is transformed by my imagination into a fictional character, and the story arises from the character.
Tom Milton
Over the past 25 years I have spent a lot of time in the Dominican Republic, where I have observed social issues that are similar to the ones we have in our country. I know people who work on social issues in that country, and I also know people who have gone there as fugitives from the law or from a crisis in their lives. I made a fugitive the narrator of this novel, and I put him in a coastal town where he got involved with two women who were dealing with social issues of the town. Through his interactions with these women he confronts what drove him to being a fugitive.
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