‘Your own complete ignorance of the world and everything in it… enables you to find almost everything interesting; an ignorance which will stay with you until you are as old as I am now.’
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‘I didn’t even bother to line up with the other girls. I marched straight to the ‘wallflower’ seats and opened up my novel. So entranced was I in the plot that I didn’t notice the smart line up of boys.’
‘Like her heroines, Rumer Godden refused to be packaged as one kind of writer, and smother her spark. I decided to follow suit. I would dream crazy dreams.’