Ask the Author: James LePore
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James LePore
My mother hated me. I wanted to kill her.
James LePore
It might be Hemingway's Cuba in To Have And Have Not, or it might be Alan Furst's pre-war Paris. There are a lot of choices, but these come to mind. Danger and romance are a heady mix.
James LePore
I'm writing a screenplay so I'm not reading anything. I do have a short list for the fall. I'm going to re-read The Sun Also Rises and Vanity Fair.
James LePore
My paternal grandfather had three children from a prior marriage. This marriage ended and my grandfather re-married, and my father, an only chid, was born. I never knew about the existence of my father's half-siblings until I was in my twenties and even then no one would talk about them. To this day I don't know their names or why my grandfather had no contact with them once his first marriage ended. I have a feeling something bad happened, a murder of passion perhaps, that caused the complete break between my grandfather and his three young children. This all happened in the early twentieth century and would make a pretty good novel.
James LePore
Roy Dillon and Moira Langtry in Jim Thompson's The Grifters.
James LePore
I haven't had it. If it comes, I'll write my way through it, even if it means writing gibberish.
James LePore
I get to use my imagination all the time.
James LePore
Write every day. If it doesn't feel right, pitch it, but keep at it. Also, don't over-write, under write.
James LePore
I just finished the third of the Tolkien-Fleming trilogy, The Bone Keepers, which switches back and forth between the time of Christ and WW2 Italy.
James LePore
I really don't get inspired. I sit down and start writing. I know this sounds weird, but it's what I do. Any inspiration involved comes from a much deeper place, from a million life experiences and from books and movies that moved me deeply.
James LePore
I wanted to honor both J.R.R. Tolkien, Ian Fleming and the heroes of the French Resistance. If we forget WW2 we'll repeat it.
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