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Quotes by Diana Athill

'Writing shouldn't come between the reader and what's being described. It should be as transparent as possible.'

‘It really is most extraordinary, having lived all these years as a cheerful but inconspicuous blue-stockinged, gray-haired, backseat publishing lady, to become a sort of show- stopper.’

92-year-old author of Somewhere Towards the End

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