English - Novelist | December 9, 1943 -
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
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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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I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not.
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You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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