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• I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor.
• All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story...…
• All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.
• I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown…
• I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them…
• Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults.
• A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it.
• I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of…
• Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument,…
• I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you…
• I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and…
• But I don't write about sex for today's teenagers. Or Doc Martens boots either. I'm more interested in exploring how exactly the…

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