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I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then...

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I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then...

I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel...

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I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel...

I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing.

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I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing.

I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early...

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I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early...

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

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Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was...

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However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was...

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with...

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However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with...

Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the...

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Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the...

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to...

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A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to...

As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed...

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As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed...

Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because...

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Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because...

The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing...

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The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing...

The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of...

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The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of...

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

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Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.

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To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.

When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is.

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When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is.

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

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Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures...

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Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures...