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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to see Dad in hospital after he had gone through one particularly grueling operation. I walked into the room where he was recovering, and he was sitting up in a chair, wearing his shirt and tie. That was after eight hours of surgery. I found that so moving.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I gave birth to Hope, I had a miscarriage. The pain was so enormous, I had to write myself out of it. I kept a diary and did not feel entirely complete until Hope was born.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
On television, it's all just shiny, successful people, and so I feel somebody has to wave a flag for the ordinary people who are not quite sure that they are getting it right.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.
- Praise
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm drawn to people who find themselves on the outside of things. I'm moved by that in real life.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have written stories since I was a child.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not expecting anyone to feel sorry for me, but when friends ask how it feels to be a debut novelist who has also been long listed for the Man Booker prize, I have to admit that my response has confused me. I am so overwhelmed, so delighted, so honoured and so surprised, I have come out in a violent cold.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced and reduced. By the end, he had a growth so big under his eye that it hurt to look at him.
- Beautiful Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The characters in my stories all have quite loud lives in my head. It's a relief to get them on the page. Often they come from people I've noticed or overheard - but that is only a part of them. It's only by writing that I discover who these people really are.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.
- Kindness
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find that very appealing: the blurring of the lines between what's funny and what's tragic. And what's ordinary and what's not - the big things in the small things.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father died in France, and my sisters and I went over with my mum to bring back his body. I remember going to the funeral parlour in France and being given a laminated menu of coffins, and thinking, surely there is an ice cream at the back of here!
- Harold
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- Nov 07, 2020
In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020