English - Author | November 1, 1959 -
I can write most places. I particularly like writing on trains. Being between places is quite liberating, and looking out of the window, watching a procession of landscapes and random-ish objects, is very good for stories.
Susanna Clarke
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One way of grounding the magic is by putting in lots of stuff about street lamps, carriages, and how difficult it is to get good servants.
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I had to restrain myself from buying a book on 19th-century fruit knives.
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You can get this feeling of the English or Scottish or Irish or Welsh fairy, but it is by nature very elusive. It would be possible to pin down a German fairy, but the English one just vanishes, becomes the shadow under the trees.
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I always start out saying exactly what everybody looks like. I don't know why.
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It's funny, because I don't think of myself as a novelist. I think of myself as a writer.
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I feel very much at home in the early nineteenth century and am not inclined to leave it.
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It seemed to me that you make magic real by making it a little prosaic, a little difficult and disappointing - never quite as glamorous as the other characters imagine.
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In some ways, 'Mansfield Park' is 'Pride and Prejudice' turned inside out.
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She doesn't do the things heroines are supposed to. Which is rather Jane Austen's point - Fanny is her subversive heroine. She is gentle and self-doubting and utterly feminine; and given the right circumstances, she would defy an army.
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