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Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

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Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.

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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.

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I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.

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If I know somebody is coming 'round, it is incredibly difficult for me to work because I'm waiting for this interruption - even the children's comings and goings are interruptions. Cake-making is a good way of coming out of that space.

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Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.

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Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.

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I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.

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I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.

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It's a taboo that comes back over and over, to suggest that women can feel divided - that you can love your child and want to do everything for it, and at the same time want to put it away from you and reclaim something of yourself.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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