- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.'
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stories of all lengths and depths come from different parts of the cave. For a novel, you must lay in mental, physical and spiritual provision as for a siege or for a time of hectic explosions, while a short story is, or can be, a steady, timed flame like the lighting of a blow lamp on a building site full of dry tinder.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I longed from a tiny child to get away on my own. When I was five, I walked out along the sands from Redcar, nearly all the way to Hartlepool.
- Goodness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was nearly 40 when I started. I had no fear that I wasn't going to write. I knew it was just delayed. Then, my goodness, I never stopped.
- Confused
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew I had a lot to say. Not politically - politics have always confused me - but perhaps spiritually.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best novel I wrote was one called 'Crusoe's Daughter,' which never won any prizes. But I was getting somewhere in that. I'm not sure I have in any of the others.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I discovered that writing was very nice indeed when I was very young, and I never changed. I don't think my style has changed very much at all - though I hope what I say is a bit more interesting. It's about getting to know a character and loving them, I think.
- Ethic
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- Nov 07, 2020
English country life is more like Chekhov than 'The Archers' or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I gave myself to my children. It happens to some women.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I've got one thing that I really believe about fiction and life, it's that there are no minor characters.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mum was a tremendous Anglo-Catholic. Very impressive, actually. She made me go to church for years - I still don't want to because of that.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years, there was no man in the house when my husband was off on law cases in the Far East. Without writing, I would have been bored and unfaithful, maybe both, and the children would have been hideously over-protected.
- Great Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020