'The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn’t matter.’
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‘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