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Writers need each other.
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Needs
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The world loves the 1950s.
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Loves
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I'm unique - a cosmopolitan mix.
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Cosmopolitan
Mix
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Scotland just isn't terribly Tory.
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Scotland
Terribly
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I believe the era of the militant lady is back.
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Believe
Eras
I Believe
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History at its best is a gritty, dirty business.
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Dirty
Dirty Business
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Scotland consistently produces world-class writers.
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Class
Scotland
World
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The cosmetic industry really took off in the 1950s.
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Cosmetic
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Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.
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Book
Trouble
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Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.
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Jobs
Imagination
Reader
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I had loved poetry and the theatre. Now I loved adventure more.
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Adventure
Theatre
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Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.
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Crime
Genre
Scottish
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We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise.
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Core
Expertise
Fields
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As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective.
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Jobs
Historical
Novelists
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History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.
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Space
Blank
Stories
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Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.
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Culture
Subjects
Notice
Stringent
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I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.
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Book
Library
Users
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Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have.
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Some matters are simply contentious. Sometimes you're never going to get it right.
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Simply
Matters
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I always thought that bagels and lox was my soul food, but it turns out it's sushi.
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Bagels
My Soul
Soul
Sushi
Turns
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Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation.
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Generations
Mother
Writing
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It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.
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Army
Baby
Book
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For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.
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Gaps
Novelists
Stories
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The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.
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Clubs
Law
Want
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Sometimes I create a character from a scrap - a mere mention that has been left behind.
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Character
Left Behind
Sometimes
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A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character.
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Character
Interesting
Vocabulary
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If I hadn't been able to get my first book published, I am not sure what I would have done.
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Published
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I'm grateful that I've enjoyed the support of libraries, bookshops and institutional funders.
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Enjoyed
Grateful
Institutional
Libraries
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Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.
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Important
Real
Writing
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Very often the characters people respond to best have little parts of reality they can relate to.
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Character
People
Reality
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An Aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side.
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Aunt
Children
Safe Haven
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Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind.
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Book
Mind
Pages
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At the end of the day, that's what a family is - a group of different people who accept each other.
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Groups
People
The End Of The Day
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We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that.
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Genuine
Experienced
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As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age.
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Dumped
Retrospective
Early Age
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The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.
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Black
Crystals
Sky
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Personally I estimate about a third of my time is spent on author events, social media and traditional publicity.
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My Time
Publicity
Social Media
Traditional
Author
Time Social Media Media
Estimate
Third
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A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always.
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Book
Fiction
Stories
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The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.
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Inspiration
Lonely
Mysterious
Cloud
Cocktail
Fired
Wandering
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If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?
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Culture
Inspire
People
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Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think.
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Assuming
Thinking
Writing
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I find it inspiring to actively choose which traditions to celebrate and also come up with new ideas for traditions of my own.
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Healing
Ideas
Tradition
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It's easy to laugh at etiquette, but in a hundred years, our children's grandchildren will almost certainly be laughing at us.
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Etiquette
Grandchildren
Hundred Years
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I'm not sure how much easier it is for a mother to balance her life now - have we simply swapped one set of restrictions for another?
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Balance
Easier
Mother
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The question shouldn't be 'Are we guilty about our colonial past;' it should be 'Why aren't we more guilty about our corporate present'?
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Corporate
Guilty
Colonial
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Writers have it easy. If you write a bestseller or have your book made into a movie, you'll never have to work again, or so the myth goes.
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Myth
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Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop.
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Archives
Charity
Research
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There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph or painting.
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Art
Painting
Pieces
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Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire.
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Imagination
Book
Ideas
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I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job.
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Jobs
Book
Research
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