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"When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens."
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"No writer can be the 'Master of the Words' without loving them! Loving is the way for Mastering! No Love, no Master!"
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"You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a novel, they know someone's made it up and they know it's not real, if you make a small mistake they will cease to imaginatively engage with the story."
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"I decided to coin the term 'cosy crime noir' for Brighton Belle. That is 'cosy crime' for today's sensibilities because there is that slightly edgy element to it."
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"What makes people tick? Life can be a trap of ennui, but imagery may be a redemptive escape from dullness. The iconic power and exuberance of images generate an inexorable addiction that needs to be gratified without respite. Here and now! ['Give me more images']"
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"Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might otherwise vanish like a wisp in the wind if ignored. Writing is a jealous and needy lover."
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"Some people have a handful of ideas, but not enough time to realize them."
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"I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh."
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"Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the wrong side of the carpet."
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"As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall."
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"Genius in truth means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."
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"Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another."
Possession
"When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens."
Creativity
"Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs."
Fashion
"The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion."
Fashion
"Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important."
Fashion
"Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh."
Fashion
"Design is an unknown."
Design
"A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives."
Dress
"I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion."
Woman
"Design is a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life."
Life
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