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"I have become very aware how under-represented are the stories of the underprivileged and undervalued. Our records are, in general, very male and if not always the material of the rich, certainly (for obvious reasons) the material of the literate."
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"When I write, I try to represent the voices of people I've known who had no voice."
"Because of this the representation I'm interested in is of those things only the eye can touch."
"Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes."
"Like my colleague, I represent a large Assyrian community in central California, one of the largest concentrations of Assyrian Americans anywhere in the United States."
"I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists."
"My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington."
"With Pollution, emotion is irrelevant, it is not their nature, Mearth sighed, making a face as if she were talking to an ignorant small child. "I didn't create them, humans created the Pollution. Cheryl Nobel, Alecto Steele, Albert Sanders, Olivia Campbell, all my pretty little Representations, there aren't many of them left these days but they're still very dangerous! They're here to tell society all about its mistakes! You don't understand the world of Representations."
"Wherever you are remember you represent Christ."
"I represent more Native Americans than anyone else in Congress."
"Wherever you are remember that you represent Christ."
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"If the universe was scientific and just left to itself, then we'd have statistical probabilities to rely on. But once people are involved it sometimes becomes much more problematic because they're erratic. People do crazy things that don't make sense."
"Mrs Beaumont shrugged. 'Dougie travelled light in life,' she said. 'He knew it was people who were important."
"For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it."
"You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a novel, they know someone's made it up and they know it's not real, if you make a small mistake they will cease to imaginatively engage with the story."
"I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job."
"I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters in (or out) of a fix more rambunctiously than the extant records show."
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