'Many, many ideas die a quiet death; they weren't strong enough or they've been done before. But some stick. '

Many, many ideas die a quiet death; they weren't strong enough or they've been done before. But some stick, or rather, other ideas stick to them. And so the snowball begins.

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'Women who write are as blood-curdlingly ambitious for fame, acclaim and money as the next person.'

Women who write are as blood-curdlingly ambitious for fame, acclaim and money as the next person, and just as desperate to get their name plastered... across their book jacket.

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'If I'd known finishing the book would have necessitated processing my brother's death I probably wouldn't have started it.'

If I'd known finishing the book would have necessitated processing my brother's death I probably wouldn't have started it; a fine example of the idea that we write books for own benefit.

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'They'd WhatsApp discussion topics and circulate e-petitions; they'd form online groups and spend their lives and energy having to defeat abusive trolls.'

Maybe nobody would sit around in coffee houses... They'd WhatsApp discussion topics and circulate e-petitions; they'd form online groups and spend their lives and energy having to defeat abusive trolls.

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'I wrote before I could write. Notebooks filled with lines of scribble and illustrations to represent the stories I knew in my head.'

I wrote before I could write. Notebooks filled with lines of scribble and illustrations to represent the stories I knew in my head but couldn't yet render into words.

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'I love researching and I sometimes wonder if I choose a subject for a novel so I can read about it.'

I love researching and I sometimes wonder if I choose a subject for a novel so I can read about it.

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'Observing and imagining so intensely gives writers an infinitely absorbing mental life which can isolate us from others.'

Observing and imagining so intensely gives writers an infinitely absorbing mental life which can isolate us from others, and in extreme forms, come close to madness.

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'You want to know the most amazing thing? Those two, up on your bedroom wall, Donny and Starsky, one day you'll meet them! '

You want to know the most amazing thing? Those two, up on your bedroom wall, Donny and Starsky, one day you'll meet them! Not just in the pages of your diary; for real.

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'Reading is an adventure, a glorious freedom. Follow your instincts, enjoy yourself; don't worry about those gaps.'

Reading is an adventure, a glorious freedom. Follow your instincts, enjoy yourself; don't worry about those gaps which anyway will be closed eventually.

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'Alice Walker's generosity in celebrating what had come before, what had ignited her, opened up a world for readers.'

Alice Walker's generosity in celebrating what had come before, what had ignited her, opened up a world for readers; reaching back to Zora Neale Hurston and bringing this writer's work back into a spotlight.

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