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I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.

~Barry Unsworth

Topics: Being Condition Just Like Outsider Passing Through

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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.

~Barry Unsworth

Topics: Absorb Ambiguity Dispute Doubt Ease Fact Ignorance Invention Land Man Mixing Quite Reach Truth Trying

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I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn.

~Barry Unsworth

Topics: Ancient Being Connection Constant Continuity Countries Daily Every Greece Lie Living Most Novels Past Present Remember Reminders Sense Spent Starting Struck Try Turkey Turn Wait Where Wonder Working Write You I Remember

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Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.

~Barry Unsworth

Topics: Evidence False Fiction Find Historians Historical Historical Fiction Make Obligation Same Say Shown Statements Sufficient Us Writers

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Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected.

~Barry Unsworth

Topics: Attempts Curtain Deep Early Effect England Enormous Green Had Me North Onto Rejected South Stories Successful Were

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As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.

~Barry Unsworth

Topics: Analogy Began Consequences Devotion Doctrines Economic Feeling How Human Kind Live Model More Motive Perfect Profit Really Reckoning See Slave Some Strongly Through Total Trade Were Without Wrote You

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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.

~Barry Unsworth

Topics: Feeling Fiction Needs Perception Pressure Secret Starts Story Unique

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But whatever the ramifications, whatever turns the path takes, the beginning is always there, in a particular moment, a particular point of access.

~Barry Unsworth

Topics: Access Always Beginning Moment Particular Path Point Ramifications Takes Turns Whatever

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I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist.

~Barry Unsworth

Topics: Novelist

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In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.

~Barry Unsworth

Topics: Destiny Figures Generation Grand Heroes History Men My Generation Nation Quintessential Taught Terms Whom

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: August 10th, 1930

Died: June 5th, 2012

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