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born 1974 South Africa
Diane Awerbuck (born 1 April 1974) is a South African novelist, teacher and reviewer. Her novel, Gardening at Night, won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book (Africa and the Caribbean), and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award.
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The archaeology of aging is so interesting – what people think they are allowed to do; what they actually can do.
Writing is an aptitude. Sometimes you have more time and inclination for it, and sometimes you have children.
We steal; we hoard; we like the sounds of our own voices.
Middle-aged love is so devastating because this time round, you know exactly what’s at stake! Old-aged love is going to knock your thrombosis socks clean off!
Novels are the most terrifying of the forms, apart from screenplays (which are basically the haiku of the fiction world, and which is why the good ones are hardly ever written by just one person).
Don’t do it. But also: if you want to, you will.
We all experience longing and magic, but we aren’t always good at knowing when they’re happening to us. Longing and magic don’t go away because we get older or more disappointed with our circumstances and selves.
We all have those roads-in-the-yellow-wood dudes –the unready loves who left us, or we left. Sometimes, in the small, shuddery hours, they come back. I think about them; I’m glad I knew them. Life is long. If you’re lucky.
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