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I did have a beautiful life. It ended early, that's all.

Human society is ninety percent muck that won't disperse to the appropriate location that's why I chose the profession of plumber.

There's the trick: to find the way - whether forwards or back - to what we long to be.

Felt astonishment at the idea of that much leisure that much spare cash flying away into bottles and vials.

I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

When you're old nobody touches you nobody listens to you - not in this bloody country.so that's what I do. I touch and I listen.

When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.

Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn.

I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important.

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.

Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak.

River on the ferry, Billy swam beside it, and Harriet remembered the donkey and the donkey cart of her first

The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.

We have to become the people we always should have been.

Life should be embraced like a lover.

Music is so important in a human life. It finds a space inside us that nothing else touches.' Gustav

Inevitably we make a small world in the midst of a big one. For a small world is all we know how to make.'p46

Kept falling in and out of it [sleep] like out of a boat or a tipping hammock.

Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted 'first readers.'

A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.

And it is silence that she hears, the silence of lost years that have no voice left in them.

In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.

I have been held in an embrace so strong by the journey that I find I have relinquished the will to arrive.

What mattered was writing it: the act of words.

He'd never seen a rain quite like this so gentle that it seemed barely to fall yet slowly laid its shine on the bay leaves and hydrangea flowers ...

Life is not a dress rehearsal.