![]() ![]() ![]() I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me." "I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately." "I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing." "I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. It felt like entering a tradition." "However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned." "I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. I began with short stories and fiction for children." "However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. They are looking for delight." "Fiction came quite a while later. "A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into." "As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates." "Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. ![]()
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