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I did want to create a ‘thick’ sense of history, a story steeped in its time that resists easy modern appropriation.

— Michael Cawood Green

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Travelling is the very nature of fiction.

I only know that when one is writing truly creatively, one works in images, not ideas.

I am fascinated by, and have written on, literal and cultural translation.

In essence fiction is about the challenge of otherness.

A comma is a political act, in certain circumstances.

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

James Joyce Ulysses (1922)

If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

Thomas Jefferson

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