Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because I'm established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance if I wanted to do fiction.
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- Author's profession: Novelist
- Nationality: australian
- Born: November 7, 1942
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