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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.
- Interest
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I rather like getting away from fiction.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years.
- Beautiful Woman
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement.
- Learn
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- Nov 07, 2020
You learn a lot, writing fiction.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.
- Distinctive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020