- Pots
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tried to help a shirtless man who was being arrested in Starbucks. He obviously wasn't right in the head, but the police thought I was trying to make things worse.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are lots of things going on for teenagers, with exam stress, changing friendship groups, becoming independent, and all those hormone changes affecting you.
- Early
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ann Radcliffe was an early influence; I devoured her books while I should have been studying for my GCSEs.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mark Haddon's 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' was published while I was trying to work out how to write 'Elizabeth Is Missing,' and reading the story of that impaired amateur detective gave me the licence I needed to attempt one of my own.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
Penelope Fitzgerald never fails to surprise: her language is clever and elegant, her settings are unusual, her characters are unpredictable, and I am always caught out by a line or moment which makes me laugh out loud.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
The characters in a novel are made up, figments of the writer's imagination. I'm sure this won't come as a surprise to anyone, and it's not surprising to me either, but knowing this, feeling this, definitely made writing my second book harder.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love writing dialogue - it's when I really lose myself in my work. I love reading it, too, when it's good and rings true.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although my father's mother, Nancy, has dementia, and her experiences gave me ideas for some of the scenes in the book, it was my mother's mother, Vera, who most influenced the character of Maud. Vera died in 2008, before I'd gotten very far into writing 'Elizabeth Is Missing,' but her voice is very like Maud's.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like most new writers, I could only hope that one day one publisher might agree to publish one of my books; I couldn't imagine several publishers all wanting to buy the first book I'd written.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is the thing that pervades my whole day - I'm always wondering how I might describe something or improve my understanding. I'm constantly trying to remember an eavesdropped conversation or an idea for a story.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I was writing 'Elizabeth Is Missing' and struggling with the intricacies of the plot, I told myself the next book would be really simple and linear, and I'd have it all worked out before I set down a single word.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent a lot of time researching dementia, read papers on the subject, and also found a lot of dementia diaries on the Internet which were a great help in getting an insight into the disease.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020