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"I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me."
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"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."
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"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."
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"Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly."
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"For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator."
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"Imagination is a glorious wonder."
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"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."
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"Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did - but they only thought of it."
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"I want to paint the rest of my days with the best colors."
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"It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic."
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"What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other."
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"My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild."
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"I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell."
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"King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them."
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"I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me."
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"Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special."
Love

"My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor."
Education

"I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette."
Heart

"Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema."
Cinema

"I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't."
War

"I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history."
History
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