"Exactly – we can put people inside a box and say ‘your this sort of person for doing this, you’re that sort of person.’ I don’t like that at all, so I think you’re right – there is this whole middle ground that people forget, that we all move between."
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I was wondering whether that was a theme you were thinking of with the novel – where nothing is black and white, or absolute, especially in regards to your characters?
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