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"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."
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"Big Brother is watching you."
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"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."
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"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."
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"Blessed is the womb that born you."
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"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."
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"A rubber plant is just about the ideal family."
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"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."
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"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."
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"Children are angels."
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"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."
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"My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint."
Books
"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."
Hope
"If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us."
Past
"Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive."
Books
"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."
Family
"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
"Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words."
Poet
"However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition."
Writing
"I was always influenced by language."
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
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