I rather like getting away from fiction.
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All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself.Penelope Lively
I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.
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Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm.
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There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
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I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.
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The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.
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