- Nov 07, 2020
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- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they were as uncertain as I was.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it.
- Collection
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book.
- Simply
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.
- Influenced
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always influenced by language.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.
- Fiction
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020