That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.
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Ideas came swarming through her, and like many people who labour in the obsession of solitude, she lacked the detachment to challenge them.Helen Garner
I like to stand behind them and give support of the kind I didn't get when I was a young mother because I was estranged from my parents for a very long time.. So I don't know which way to go from here and it does seem a particularly female problem.
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I think writers are very anxious.
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I think one thing I've learned not to do from my experience with The First Stone was to pester somebody, to keep insisting that they speak to you.
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But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.
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