‘These are short story writers and novelists. I write biography, social history and memoir and yet I have learned from them all; factual writing borrowing some of fiction’s clothes.’
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‘Rebecca proved that literary merit is not the antithesis of a good yarn; it is possible, perhaps preferable, to do both.’
‘The writers who first deeply influenced me were the Modernists; Woolf, Pound, Eliot, H.D. All working the edges of meaning, re-imagining.’
‘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.’