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Carol Ann Duffy

"It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal."

Carol Ann Duffy, British Poet
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"It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal."

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"Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company."

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"Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning."
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"Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings."
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"My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy."
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"I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales."
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"Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries."
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"I still read Donne, particularly his love poems."
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"Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely."
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