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"The lightest weight anyone can carry on life's journey is hope."

"If you are still alive, your blessings are far from being over. Keep aiming higher and don't allow anyone or anything to steal your faith and hope."

"The darkest moments of the night herald the imminent advent of a radiant sun."

"A seed today is a forest tomorrow."
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"My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint."

"I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there."

"I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me."

"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."

"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."

"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."
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