Joanna Trollope Quotes

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• The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.
• I am often criticised for being rather accessible.
• I always love writing about children.
• You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it!
• You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young!

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