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Jill Paton Walsh
English Novelist
Born: Apr 29, 1937
Book Great Life Me Think You
Related authors: Aldous Huxley Charles Dickens E. M. Forster J. R. R. Tolkien Thomas Hardy William Golding William Makepeace Thackeray
There's no point in using someone else's characters if you're going to turn them into your own vision. You have to be loyal to that person's worldview and sensitive to what they would and wouldn't have done with their characters, and how explicit or inexplicit they would've been. Jill Paton Walsh
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I honestly don't think Peter is that interesting without Harriet - the only exception being 'The Nine Tailors', which is such a good book it doesn't really matter whether he's got a consort or not. Jill Paton Walsh
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If you want to express yourself, you need the services of a lover or a psychiatrist; if you want to express a book, you might conceivably manage it. Jill Paton Walsh
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You can't deduce the personality of the potter from the pots. It's a thingy you've made and offered to somebody else for their use, and, believe me, a novel is like that. It's a made thing and ought not to contain a direct self-expression of the writer. Jill Paton Walsh
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