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I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one.

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I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.

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The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.

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The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

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There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

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I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.

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It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it.

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I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.

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We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible.

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I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: March 17th, 1933

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