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• ‟ With reading, I was very lucky. I had a mother who read to me, not because she had time - she was a busy woman - but she found 10 minutes to come and sit on my bed with a book.

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• ‟ When I was very little my mother would read to me in bed. She gave me a fascination for stories, and for the music in words.

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• ‟ It gives me confidence to know that what I'm writing has a veracity of its own without me having to invent it. When I'm writing fiction, I must believe it to be true, or I can see no point in it.

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• ‟ You get to about 65 or 70 and you lose friends and the world does seem to be an endlessly difficult place and tragic place, so it's more and more difficult for me to find the bright lights.

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• ‟ It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwriting doesn't inhibit the creative flow. When I was at school there was a huge focus on copying and testing and it put me off words and stories for years.

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• ‟ Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.

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• ‟ A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion.

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