‘The compulsion to write is paradoxically both a celebration of life, and a protest at its passing; not that I think about this when I’m actually at my desk with a pen in my hand.’
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‘The Aegean pebble on the desk, the mug with the silly legend, the quiver of blunt pencils, the wonky chair, are vitally important coordinates like the stars to a medieval mariner. The concrete conditions in which I write are important to me.’
‘Virginia Woolf’s fiction explores the inner lives of intelligent women with courage and originality; she searched for, and found, a way of telling a story that was different.’