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• I was really interested in how marriages work, how you can, you know, be in love with somebody and spend many years…
• The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that…
• I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.
• Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.
• There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites…
• We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.
• My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort…
• September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent…
• Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house.
• I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it…
• Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the…
• My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.

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