- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never written poetry. I'm not a poet, but I think the nearest you get is either the short story or the novella, in that you can't waste a word. There is no hiding place: everything's got to be seen to relate, and the prose counts.
- Cake
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote ghost stories because I'd always enjoyed reading them, and they seemed to be fizzling out... I don't take them terribly seriously. It's like a cake, with ingredients.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not one of those people who hates Amazon because they're big. Why pay a third more for the same thing?
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be difficult to write a convincing ghost story set on a sunny day in a big city.
- Flashback
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- Nov 07, 2020
Flashback in film rarely works.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of writers want everything put on screen, but it doesn't work like that. The screenwriter brings her own imaginative interpretation, just as the director and actors do.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you were writing a short ghost story, I would say start very quietly and go, 'One, two, three jump.' Or start with a jump and make it jumpier. But with a long story, it must have rises and falls.
- Much
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yorkshire is so much part of me.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was an only child who was never really good at anything else. I had no other option. I could write; I wanted to write; I wrote. Otherwise, I was unemployable.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In another life I would be a medievalist. I loved Chaucer, far more than Shakespeare.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing the Victorians really believed in was philanthropy. I think we've forgotten the obligation to be philanthropic. I think we need smaller government, but I want to make it clear I'm not the Sarah Palin of the Cotswolds.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Films always make everyone else rich save the author.
- Frighten
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easy to write a short story and frighten people for five pages, but to work at length, when you do it as in 'The Turn Of The Screw' or 'A Christmas Carol,' it's different; you have to build it and build it.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainly with a book, people are going to be able to read it and give themselves permission to have that delicious feeling of being terrified because they're in a safe place while they're reading. That's what you can rely on as a writer, that people can let themselves be really frightened because they're really all right.
- Kindness
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- Nov 07, 2020