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Toibin: 'learn to look innocent' when writing about relatives

"If you ask in advance" to put a real life anecdote into a novel "people always say no" says Irish novelist Colm Toibin

He advises authors to "just write it" and "learn to look really innocent" when people ask if a character is based on them.

This clip is originally from Afternoon Edition on January 28 2015.

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