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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?

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Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane.

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Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced.

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I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award ceremony an agent asked me if I was writing a novel. I showed her four or five chapters of what would become 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' and to my surprise she auctioned them off.

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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

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I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd love to be a Catholic. I think it would be fantastic - faith, forgiveness, absolution, extreme unction - all these wonderful words. I don't think anyone who was ever born a Catholic hasn't died a Catholic, no matter how lapsed they are.

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Sylvie's knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, 'The sign that one has acquired one's learning from reading novels rather than an education.

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