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"Edinburgh is a great big black bastard of a city where there are ghosts of all kinds."
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"With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting."
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"Edinburgh is a great big black bastard of a city where there are ghosts of all kinds."
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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."
Discovery
"Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think."
Writing
"Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it."
Love
"They march into the future to the rhythm of the past."
Time
"You can't trust anyone you have to pay, and really, they can't trust you."
Trust
"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."
Mystery
"Once you're on the pleasure express, it's hard to get off and switch to another, slower service."
Psychology
"Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities."
Research
"Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation."
Legacy
"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."
Storytelling
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