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"I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately."
Reading
"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."
Age
"I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing."
Influence
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"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."
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Personal Development
"The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age."
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Personal Development
"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."
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Personal Development
"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."
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"Age merely shows what children we remain."
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Personal Development
"Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age."
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Personal Development
"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."
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Personal Development
"The golden age is before us, not behind us."
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Personal Development
"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
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"Not even old age knows how to love death."
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