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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).

— Diane Awerbuck

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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!

Don’t do it. But also: if you want to, you will.

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