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"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
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"But an inferior talent can only be graceful when it's carrying inferior ideas. And the more narrowly you can look at a thing the more entertaining you can be about it."
"Your wealth is in your talent and that is why you will be poor until you find yourself."
"There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure."
"Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better."
"Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them."
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"It often horrified the English community that she spent her time with local farmers and horse traders, eccentrics and mystics, but she valued expertise over convention and had long believed if you were going to make discoveries in the world you must first quit your Englishness and open your eyes."
"Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think."
"Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it."
"An eerie atmosphere leeched from the soot-damaged walls. It was as if the house had died, and yet she felt she belonged here. It was as if the old place wanted to claim her from the grave."
"Once you're on the pleasure express, it's hard to get off and switch to another, slower service."
"Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities."
"I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with the real history but is, in fact, fiction."
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