#Person1#: Mr. Sharp, thank you for giving me this interview. So, my first question is, are you happy with your life?
#Person2#: Am I happy? You may know you are the first person to have asked me this question directly. The others dared not because they were afraid I might say yes. They wanted me to say no so that they could make up stories about me.
#Person1#: What kind of stories?
#Person2#: Brian Sharpe, author of over 100 historical novels, lives in a lonely house 30 miles away from Sydney. But is he happy?
#Person1#: Is that why you have refused many interviews?
#Person2#: I'm tired of being told that I must be unhappy because I'm rich and successful. I'm not unhappy.
#Person1#: Understood. And I'm wondering if you follow a similar pattern of writing.
#Person2#: I know what you mean. Do I write similar stories? I say no.
#Person1#: So, how do you create your heroes?
#Person2#: My heroes live? They think for themselves. All their stories are drawn from life, my life, my friends' lives, including my friends in many books.
#Person1#: Sounds good to me.
#Person1# interviews Mr. Sharp. Mr. Sharp tells #Person1# he's happy and he doesn't write similar stories. His stories are drawn from life.
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