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So it’s the fastest book I’ve ever written actually."
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What was your inspiration forThe Girl Who Drank the Moon?
Bruce Silcox
The book also manages to touch upon several themes while also telling this longer fairytale.
Did you know what you wanted to tackle before you set out to write?
I did not realize that it would be as relevant today.
Bruce Silcox
That was really interesting to me because human beings are all storytellers.
We are all built as stories.
We teach and learn and take in new information all in narrative and stories.
It’s the story ofGilgamesh.
So storytelling is really important for who we are as human beings.
How did you approach that aspect of the book?
Our memories are not reliable or stable, even though we’d like to believe that they are.
And our memories are not always accessible to us even though we’d like to believe that they are.
So I really did want to play with that because we tell ourselves all kinds of lies about ourselves.
And I wanted to play with that too.
Because all these characters are not only lying to other people, they’re lying to themselves.
I love that line fromHarriet the Spy.
It’s one of the fun things about writing fantasy.
You’re literally like rewriting creation, which is fun.
They are in the process of rewriting the world, and the universe.
And I do take that responsibility very seriously.
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