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"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."
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Personal Development
"So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."
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Personal Development
"It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think."
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"Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents' foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood."
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"Mother is the center of the family, everyone else surrounds her."
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"There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it."
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"Torn clothes are funny - until your dad gets fired."
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"Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin."
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"An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer."
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"If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."
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"I was always influenced by language."
Language
"Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive."
Books
"I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me."
Family
"To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation."
History
"However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned."
Writing
"I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place."
Age
"Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children."
Family
"I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us."
Reading
"A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into."
Writing
"Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear."
Poetry
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