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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Tulip Fever' did change my life. It did that thing that sometimes happens when a book takes off - it opened doors on to whole other worlds.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had a very lucky life because I'm of this generation where everything was possible.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think that's rather interesting. It makes you feel you've lived a very long life; it's like going on holiday to three different cities rather than spending two weeks in Lisbon. You look back on the holiday, and you seem to have been away forever.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've written something like 17 novels, which isn't bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I'm lazy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel as if someone is going to come along, feel my collar and say: 'Do you really think you can get people to read books you've made up about people that don't exist?'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bringing my two children up while writing was just a part of life. I'd much rather have had their interruptions than been stuck in a sterile office. This way, I had welcome distractions. I had to load the washing machine, I had to go out and buy lemons.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't start writing your novel until you know your characters very, very well. What they'd do if they saw somebody shoplifting. What they were like at school. What shoes they wear. Spend days - weeks, months - being them until they thicken up and start to breathe.
- Together
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing a novel is a huge adventure; when it's going well it's more fun than fun. When it stutters to a halt put it aside. Go for a swim, go for a walk, take a week off. Don't panic or be afraid; you and your characters are in it together. Trust them to come to your rescue.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Discover the times when you're most creative - mornings, nights, afternoons - and clear the time to work then. Many writers find the mornings are best, and the afternoons are only good for editorial corrections, or getting the washing done. Others can only work through the night, drunk.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always running my mouth off and getting myself in trouble, so I'm trying to do it less.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, in general, we expect too much of partners. We can't fulfil a person's every single need and, after ten years or so, many relationships wear out. If we were more philosophical about it, we wouldn't try to blame the other person or be bitter.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men take much more notice of older women in France, so I might move there. I think I'm a good bet.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm quite easy to live with and very easy going.
- Great Believer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a great believer in having the power to end your life and knowing that, in extremis, you can. But I would not want to involve anybody else in my actions if it could imperil them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One sees more and more people who are miserable and demented and you feel it would be both kind and wise to leave them a few pills.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
My perfect day is to work incredibly well in the morning and write something wonderful, then take the dog for a walk and go for a swim in the ladies' ponds on Hampstead Heath or work in my allotment. Then I get tarted up in the evening and go out in London to dinner or the cinema.
- Gardening
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look in the mirror expecting to be 34 and see someone who is 58. What's that all about? I haven't even thought about turning 60 yet, but so many of my friends have celebrated it by now that it's lost its terror. And I don't mind being 58; it's just such a surprise when one doesn't feel it at all.
- Bedroom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favourite room in my house is easily the top room, which is a bedroom but also a bathroom, with a big, wooden carved bath, two huge fireplaces and a raised bit in the corner for performances. I've had some really lovely parties and poetry readings up there.
- Landscape
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
All novelists I speak to about how they started usually say it was by pulling up their roots and going to live somewhere else. You see the shape of your life at a distance.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need to know the characters as living, breathing people before you start the plot; otherwise, you'll feel panic, anarchy and chaos.
- Filler
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did have a go with Botox, but I couldn't move my eyebrows. I also, at one point, had that filler stuff injected, but I looked like a hamster with wodges of food in its cheeks, so I stopped that.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - the food, the customs, the climate, everything.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set there.
- Boss
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found Hollywood pretty bruising and uncreative. The executives are all in thrall to the boss, and spend their times double-guessing him or her, and trying to remember what he/she said and then applying them to the script, whether it was useful or not. They're all in fear for their jobs.
- Landscape
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near Watford - so I wanted to do something different. I wanted to be a bluegrass singer, an architect, a landscape gardener, or to do something with animals.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a hippopotamus skull next to my bed, called Gregory. When I was six, my three sisters and I clubbed together and paid £4 for it in a junk shop. We collected owl pellets, ostrich eggs and sheep skulls for our natural history museum at home.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have four Rhode Island Red hens. I get two eggs from them a day. They're feathered dustbins that eat leftover food and weeds, and they're easy to look after - I throw some grain at them in the morning, take the eggs and that's it. I love the sound of clucking.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate fussing about in the kitchen when I have people over to supper, so I make a rich beef stew cooked in wine with carrots, sundried tomato paste and chopped chorizo sausage.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like missing someone and being missed; I like looking forward to seeing him again. I like getting emails and texts with lots of xxx's.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living apart is hardly possible if people have children together. It can also be more expensive to maintain two homes. But then, it's expensive to break up when you live in one property.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work every day from 9:30 or so until lunchtime. In the afternoons, I become a normal person - go shopping and do the garden and look after my grandchildren.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, I couldn't imagine women of 60 falling in love. For one thing, people used to stay married; they weren't out in the jungle, searching for romance. Besides, these women just looked so ancient - permed hair, beige cardis.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do believe that we baby-boomers are reinventing ageing as we enter it. We're living longer and expecting more from life; the success of 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,' and other films and novels about finding love late in life, have shown that if we're up for it, there are adventures awaiting us.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing beats weaving through the rush-hour traffic or whizzing past the eternal gridlock that is the Strand.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020