I actually think history doesn't repeat itself. There are recurrent themes, but they're repeated with variations. Each time there's an immigration crisis, a threat from outside which is met with inhospitable wall building, it's different. And I think it's helpful… — Lucy Hughes-Hallett Copy Share Image
Whereas if you're a reader, you can enter other people's minds, you can be in direct contact with people who may have lived hundreds or thousands of years ago. You can know what's like to be old if you're young… — Lucy Hughes-Hallett Copy Share Image
Mr. Donald Trump talking about the US Mexican border, he's not doing anything new or unusual. It's something that's very much in the air… — Lucy Hughes-Hallett Copy Share Image
I actually think history doesn't repeat itself. There are recurrent themes, but they're repeated with variations. Each time there's an immigration crisis, a threat… — Lucy Hughes-Hallett Copy Share Image
Writers aren't like plumbers. If you're a plumber, you fix one person's boiler in the morning, then you go and fix another in the… — Lucy Hughes-Hallett Copy Share Image
Whereas if you're a reader, you can enter other people's minds, you can be in direct contact with people who may have lived hundreds… — Lucy Hughes-Hallett Copy Share Image
I think you learn how to write by reading an enormous amount, so then your memory is stocked with various constructions, various ways of… — Lucy Hughes-Hallett Copy Share Image
I think there's a very fundamental urge to create a safe space, a home; most animals have that impulse, and humans certainly do -… — Lucy Hughes-Hallett Copy Share Image
