There is something about the unexpected that moves us. As if the whole of existence is paid for in some way, except for that one moment, which is free.
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The Imagination conjures gifts what the ungrateful, unsentimental part of the mind has to do is to unwrap them, find fault with them, see them for what they are and then alter them.Rose Tremain
I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.
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So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right sources and the necessary time for the initial research.
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When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.
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The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place.
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