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"Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book."
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"I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately."
Reading
"Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book."
Hope
"To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation."
History
"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
"Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children."
Family
"The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it."
Language
"As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates."
Time
"I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all."
Fact
"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."
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"Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'..."
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Personal Development
"Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last."
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Personal Development
"If there is no dream, there will be no hope. If there is no hope there will be no life."
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Personal Development
"Try again, you have millions of alternatives. Fill yourself with the bullets of hope and you will kill failure with one shot."
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Personal Development
"Stay strong; disappointments will not stay for that long. Wipe away your tears; be ready to receive cheers from people all over the world, beginning from you!"
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Personal Development
"Never be disabused of those hopes you believe in otherwise you will go far as far as you can't be."
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Personal Development
"The lightest weight anyone can carry on life's journey is hope."
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Personal Development
"Be brave enough to listen to your heart, be bold enough to hope for the best."
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Personal Development
"Love without hope will not survive.Love without faith changes nothing.Love gives power to hope and faith."
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Personal Development
"If you are still alive, your blessings are far from being over. Keep aiming higher and don't allow anyone or anything to steal your faith and hope."
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Personal Development
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