"It has to be generated out of what is not necessarily the consequence of surface events. "Fiction has to come up from below," he says, frowning in the late afternoon light. Kennedy, who turned 84 last month and is publishing his ninth novel, spent years trying to figure out his friend's question marks – the alchemy of a successful novel – and complete the move from journalist to fiction writer. T here is a page on the wall of William Kennedy's townhouse, ripped from the notepad of Gabriel García Márquez, on which the Colombian novelist has written, in a combination of English and Spanish, a list of words describing what goes into fiction: love, humour, politics, nostalgia, tristeza, vida, muerte and, the final ingredient, three question marks.
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