Tell me your secrets
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I think that is my inspiration: looking at human nature, and then putting that into my work. There were certain criminal cases that happened that I thought, "Wow, is that really what we're capable of as human beings?" I think it really was looking at a situation that fascinated me in real life. I'm longing to sit and watch things, but I don't think there was anything conscious as an inspiration. I think I'm very driven by atmospheres and books I read when I was a kid American writers I have read through my life.īut the irony is that I watch so little, I don't get the time. Harriet Warner: I love the feel of what I as an English person would call Southern Gothic.
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Were there any inspirations that helped you as you were writing, though, or stories you paid homage to? When I started watching, the first thing that came to mind was Memento, but of course that's not how the story plays out. I thought that was really interesting territory, and I wanted to explore that. It was really taking that theme and putting it through the prism of a character who is starting life again in witness protection, and she's reinventing herself while trying to make sense of her past. I thought, "God, I really want to write about that." I thought, "Is that possible, that you can have intimacy without real knowledge?" It's our capacity as people for secrets. And I was fascinated by certain cases you would hear of, where somebody had done something, and their mother had never believed that of them or their lover or their daughter. Harriet Warner: I was really wanting to explore a relationship where someone could love someone and yet not know these huge truths about them. How was that concept for Tell Me Your Secrets? What inspired you to write it?