‘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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‘The inspiration here has involved a movement from poetry to prose. This is something that pleases me immensely; one genre fertilising another.’
‘Reading as a writer and not just as a reader is a different experience, both richer and less carefree; instead of simply enjoying the ride now you are paying attention to the mechanism that makes it possible’
‘Knowing the writer inevitably quickens the pleasure of reading the work. Olga is an unusually complete writer; all she does is imagine, plan, plot and write.’