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"That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque."
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"Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it's an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we're facing."

"Hope strengthens desire and love strengthens confidence."
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"Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves."

"I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually."

"Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions."

"At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society."

"But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground."

"It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth."

"The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching."
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