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Nina Bawden | 'All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They ...
'All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people.'
'The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can even survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent.'