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"If you want to be happy, be."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"If you want to be loved, be lovable."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have."

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"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"I do want to go another way - to write something completely different."

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"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

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"Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are."

Curiosity

"The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form."

Fiction

"All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself."

Reading

"It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it."

Family

"The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction."

Time

"I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past."

Past

"I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for."

Now

"I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement."

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"You learn a lot, writing fiction."

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"I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one."

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