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One way of grounding the magic is by putting in lots of stuff about street lamps, carriages, and how difficult it is to get good servants.

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I had to restrain myself from buying a book on 19th-century fruit knives.

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You can get this feeling of the English or Scottish or Irish or Welsh fairy, but it is by nature very elusive. It would be possible to pin down a German fairy, but the English one just vanishes, becomes the shadow under the trees.

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I always start out saying exactly what everybody looks like. I don't know why.

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It's funny, because I don't think of myself as a novelist. I think of myself as a writer.

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I tell stories. I kind of stumbled on that by trying to combine Jane Austen and magic.

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I feel very much at home in the early nineteenth century and am not inclined to leave it.

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It seemed to me that you make magic real by making it a little prosaic, a little difficult and disappointing - never quite as glamorous as the other characters imagine.

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'Pride and Prejudice' is often compared to 'Cinderella,' but Jane Austen's real 'Cinderella' tale is 'Mansfield Park.'

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I must confess that in my teens and twenties, I loved 'Mansfield Park' rather in spite of Fanny than because of her. Like Fanny's rich, sophisticated cousins, I didn't really get her.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: November 1st, 1959

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