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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.
- Disaster
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.
- History
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The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth.
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I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'
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When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.
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As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives of other women around you have these distinct phases.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out all the background details and the biographies of the people involved there, and I try to run up all the accounts side by side to see where the contradictions are, and to look where things have gone missing.
- Connection
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it.
- Memories
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I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first two novels were very black comedies.
- Mind
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I've got so many ideas, and sometimes the more exhausted my body gets, the more active my mind gets.
- Choose
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When I wrote about the French Revolution, I didn't choose to write about aristocrats; I chose characters who began their lives in provincial obscurity.
- Centers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.
- Historian
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020