You learn a lot, writing fiction.
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Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.Penelope Lively
I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years.
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The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.
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I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements.
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We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.
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I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.
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