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I always love writing about children.
Joanna Trollope / Writer
Children
Writing
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I am often criticised for being rather accessible.
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Accessible
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You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.
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Character
Helping
Leaking
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I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not.
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Orderly
Way
Writing
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You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.
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Book
Library
Rooms
Furnish
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I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it!
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Sorry
New Book
Superstition
Third
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The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters.
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Love
Men
Children
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I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves, and been on a tremendous journey.
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Journey
Enormous
Tremendous
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Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.
Joanna Trollope / Writer
Book
Going Out
World
Respect World Way
Author
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You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.
Joanna Trollope / Writer
Change Yourself
People
Situation
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I'm no lyrical stylist, you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.
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Intellectual
Perfect
Stylist
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I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.
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Lyrical
Stylist
Describe
Sentence
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I don't need to marry again. I've been married twice, and I love it when it works, but these days we live until we're 80 and marriages are jolly long.
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Jolly
Twice
Marriages
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My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.
Joanna Trollope / Writer
Character
Equal
Golden
Golden Age
Importance
Narrative
Views
Voice
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I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous like a cake or shoes or handbags, and she won't be a threat to men.
Joanna Trollope / Writer
Girl
Men
Cake
Cupcakes
Frivolous
Handbags
Shoes
Distract
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Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.
Joanna Trollope / Writer
Benevolence
Differences
Enormous
Names
Perception
Psychological
Hugely
No Difference
Oddly
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All TV can do is capture the spirit of a book because the medium is so utterly different. But I'm very grateful for the readers that Masterpiece Theatre has undoubtedly brought me.
Joanna Trollope / Writer
Capture
Grateful
Masterpiece
Theatre
Medium
Readers
Undoubtedly
Utterly
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My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.
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Advice
Emotion
Growing Up
Writing
Anyway
Spare
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I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there, and the dramatic tension is heightened.
Joanna Trollope / Writer
Dramatic
Tension
Towns
Visible
Actions
Always More Because
Communities
Villages
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I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate!
Joanna Trollope / Writer
Kindness
Home
Appreciate
Generous
Reviews
Welcome
Edge
Experienced
Suffer
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I plot the first 5 or 6 chapters quite minutely, and also the end. So I know where I am going but not how I'm going to get there, which gives characters the chance to develop organically, as happens in real life as you get to know a person.
Joanna Trollope / Writer
Chapters
Plot
Real Life
Develop
Organically
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