And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.
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But my mother felt very acutely having been deprived of further education. She felt it very acutely. So there were always books.
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You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing.
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And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.
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