- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Diet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure.
- Blind
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a child, I dreaded blindness. We used to ask: 'Would we rather be blind or deaf?' I said I'd rather be blind, even though I was scared of it. I couldn't bear not being able to hear music or talk to people.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have good and evil in one person. It led me to read a lot of Russian literature.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My second husband encouraged me to go to a writing group at our local theatre. It was my 'coming out of the closet' moment.
- Listen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I usually listen to the same thing over and over again: Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major. And Leonard Cohen.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to be Jo in 'Little Women.' She's a bit reckless and feckless, always getting into trouble like me. But I'm probably more like Madame Bovary.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
I must have been a very strange child. I was very pretentious. Like Adrian Mole.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dark secrets are life threatening. Pockets of unhappiness set in aspic that build and build. I have this primitive feeling that if something good happens, it is going to be followed by something bad. There is always a price to pay.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a very independent person, and I, you know, I maintain that independence, but, you know, certain things - I mean, it takes, you know, it's just much easier for other people if other people can help you every now and again.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the early days, it was, you know, I used to weep while I was writing. I used to grab at any kind of anything, any hint, any tip of how to make it easy.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been fascinated by totalitarian regimes. I'm not an admirer of them.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lack of confidence - every time I start a new piece of work, it seems I have to spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
My cream and black Aga. It is the heart of the house, and people congregate around it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do think that books, good books, free you. They make you feel a citizen of the world and things like class, sex and age don't matter. They're the greatest leveler.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.
- Nov 07, 2020
Live with all of your senses.
- Nov 07, 2020
Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always have this image of a woman running across a desert carrying children, trying to find water and food, not knowing when they'll get that. And her feet are slashed up from the dry, hard earth... Even when I'm uncomfortable, sometimes in pain, or just cold... I think, 'Thank God for what I've got.'
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had library books in our house, but not our own. So you had 14 days to read them. There would be eight books a fortnight in our house and I'd read as many of those as I could.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I hate it when people call me a 'national treasure'. It takes away your bite and makes you feel like a harmless old golden Labrador.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am surrounded by counselors. My sister is a counselor. My daughter is training to be a counselor. A lot of my friends are counselors.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am the world's worst diabetic.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I rant, in a comical way, about how the gods give with one hand and take with the other.
- Devoid
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd love a day devoid of responsibilities. I've often thought about going to a hotel just to have a day away from everything.
- Mobility
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took my sight and mobility for granted.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house.
- Pleasure
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- Nov 07, 2020