- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because I'm established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance if I wanted to do fiction.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope... But, as we got older and we saw how much women's behaviour contributed to what was wrong, we stopped being able to see ourselves purely as.
- Fulfilment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.
- Dignity
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions.
- Destructiveness
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.
- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think writers are very anxious.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually.
- Nose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like poking my nose into other people's lives.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
But there are some wounds that can never be healed.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020