"Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves."

Life, Love, People, World

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"Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves."

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"Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect."

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"Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen."

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"No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own."

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