"I don't ascribe to a sort of narrow view of the muse," she says. "The inspiration will do what it wants, but it can't work with you if you're not already working" She's spent four years doing research on botany and Darwinism for her latest novel. The last book that I wrote is written without any recollection of where it came from,. But when I say I kind of do know it came from my devotion, but there's another level as well.

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