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Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.
Living with my grandmother in Bath, I sort of thought I was living in the 19th century. My grandmother was someone who, in a way, was rather... →
I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.'
In Victorian fiction, there would be a chapter at the end devoted to righting all of the wrongs. I thought to right all of the wrongs would be too... →
For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating... →
To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if I can write it; otherwise, I... →
I'm quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I've coined a rather hideous word... →
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