‘I am particularly inspired by writers who approach their work ever so slightly sideways. Just a step, not the whole mile. Writers who are playful.’
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‘Helen Dunmore was an established writer, but she revealed how she wasn’t happy about the stories she was writing. I hadn’t heard a writer talk about failure before. ‘
‘Rebecca proved that literary merit is not the antithesis of a good yarn; it is possible, perhaps preferable, to do both.’
‘Most of the Victorians I loved have lost their shine too, for me, except George Eliot; her luminous sense of justice and vision distinguish her. ‘