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You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.

~Joanna Trollope

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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 the dramatic tension is heightened.

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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 going to get there, which gives characters the chance to develop organically, as happens in real life as you get to know a person.

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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 not patronized here either, which I much appreciate!

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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 that Masterpiece Theatre has undoubtedly brought me.

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You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young!

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I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it!

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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 and his enormous psychological perception.

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I am often criticised for being rather accessible.

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I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

~Joanna Trollope

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: December 9th, 1943

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