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It's the little details I love. How to fletch your arrows with owl feathers, because owls fly silently, so maybe your arrows will, too. How to carry fire in a piece of smouldering fungus wrapped in birchbark. These are the things which help a world come alive.
Michelle Paver / Novelist
Alive
Arrows
Details
Feathers
Fire
Little
Carry
Fly
Fungus
Help
Maybe
Owls
Piece
Wrapped
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I live on my own, happily, and I've never wanted children, but it did occur to me one day that there's part of me in 'Torak' - he's a loner, I'm a loner - as there's part of me in 'Renn,' who's quite waspish. I think, in some senses, 'Torak' is the son I never had.
Michelle Paver / Novelist
Senses
Me Day Children
Happily
Occur
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I don't use the Internet, as I don't like living with lots of distractions. I have tried, but I found it a hindrance. as my sense of priorities goes out of the window and it pulls me out of my writing, particularly with email. I'd sit there for hours just replying to emails.
Michelle Paver / Novelist
Hindrance
Priorities
Window
Distractions
Emails
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To experience the northern forest in the raw, I went to northern Finland and Lapland, travelling on horseback, and sleeping on reindeer skins in the traditional open-fronted Finnish laavu. I ate elk heart, reindeer and lingonberries, and tried out spruce resin: the chewing gum of the Stone Age.
Michelle Paver / Novelist
Chewing
Chewing Gum
Finland
Finnish
Gum
Horseback
Skins
Stone Age
Traditional
Ate
Forest
Northern
Raw
Sleeping
Stone
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I saw myself as a trailblazer in the 1980s as a female lawyer in the City. It was exciting, as women were outnumbered by men five to one. But while I had this sense of trailblazing, in reality, I wasn't pushing boundaries; it was just a personal myth I'd created, as I was doing a job I wasn't enjoying.
Michelle Paver / Novelist
Women
Boundaries
Female
Five
Myth
Pushing
Reality
Men Women Myself
Job
Doing
Enjoying
Women Men Myself
Saw
Outnumbered
Personal
Sense
While
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I didn't do it for the money. I know a lot of people say that, but if I'd wanted to be rich, I'd have stayed working as a city lawyer. I gave that up eight years ago and took a massive drop in salary, and I didn't mind because I was doing what I loved. There's plenty of material for the other five books.
Michelle Paver / Novelist
Eight
Five
Massive
Plenty
Rich
Salary
Years Ago
Books
Drop
Gave
Material
People Say
Stayed
Took
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I wanted to write a very simple story about a boy, a wolf, a girl, a bear and a forest, so I thought I might set it in the past. I didn't realise that it went back to when I was 10: I used to love the Stone Age when I was a kid and wanted to live in it, and I got rid of my bed and slept on the floor, but I didn't remember it.
Michelle Paver / Novelist
Stone Age
Bear
Floor
Forest
In The Past
Realise
Rid
Slept
Stone
Wolf
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Why do so many children love the idea of being snowed in or shipwrecked, of having to survive on one's own? When I was a child, I was no exception. I wanted to hunt with a bow and arrow like the Stone Age people: to skin deer and build my own shelter. And I desperately wanted a wolf. As we lived in London, my options were limited.
Michelle Paver / Novelist
Deer
Exception
Shelter
Stone Age
Love Age People
Arrow
Bow
Hunt
No Exception
Options
Stone
Survive
To Survive
Wolf
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