Joanna Trollope quotes
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“The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters.”
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“You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.”
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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.”
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“I am often criticised for being rather accessible.”
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“I always love writing about children.”
-- Joanna TrollopeSource : "Paperback Q&A: Joanna Trollope on Daughters-in-Law". www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2012.
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“My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.”
-- Joanna TrollopeSource : Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. June 02, 2012.
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“I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous like a cake or shoes or handbags, and she won't be a threat to men.”
-- Joanna TrollopeSource : Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. June 02, 2012.
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“You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.”
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“My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.”
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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.”
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“Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.”
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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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“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'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not.”
-- Joanna Trollope
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