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Margaret Drabble
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MARGARET DRABBLE
The Art of Fiction No. 70
Interviewed by Barbara Milton
Issue 74, Fall-Winter 1978
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INTERVIEWER
It seems to me that as far as you’re concerned, the kind of person you are has as much to do with fate or accident as it does with self-creation.

DRABBLE
This is what is so interesting about life: choosing to be something and being struck down while you do it by a falling brick. The whole question of free will and choice and determinism is inevitably interesting to a novelist. Perhaps I go on about it more than some. Are your characters puppets in the hands of fate or are they really able to make free choices?
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