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"It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it."
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"Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical."
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"Do not forget you mother, when she is old."
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"Children see beauty in everything."
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"You can become a model of a perfect man or a devoted husband and a father in order to show the role of the a man's responsibility for the family."
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"Do not refuse to help your own relatives."
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"A man's work is from sun to sun but a mother's work is never done."
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"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."
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"Children are great observers."
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"Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home."
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"I'm a liberal where children are concerned, a libertarian where adults are concerned - and thinking very seriously about running for the House of Representatives, for whatever that's worth."
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"Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are."
Curiosity
"You learn a lot, writing fiction."
Fiction
"I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements."
Want
"We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from."
Identity
"I rather like getting away from fiction."
Fiction
"I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children."
Thought
"It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency."
Choice
"I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement."
History
"I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for."
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"I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation."
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