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While medicine creates material for writing, perhaps even more important is that it also creates a psychological and emotional need to write.

While medicine creates material for writing, perhaps even more important is that it also creates a psychological and emotional need to write.

Daniel Mason
Writing, Emotional, Medicine
"A Conversation with Daniel Mason, author of THE PIANO TUNER". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins.

Daniel Mason
Ivory, White, Stories
Daniel Mason (2003). “The Piano Tuner: A Novel”, p.44, Vintage

But being able to talk to so many patients from so many walks of life gives a tremendous window into people's lives. This is not to say I want to write about individual patients, but I think that after listening to the concerns of people who are so different from me, I can more realistically portray characters who are so different from me.

Daniel Mason
Writing, Character, Thinking
Penguin Random House interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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