- 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