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Pat Barker

English Writer

Born: May 8, 1943

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Related authors: Arthur C. Clarke D. H. Lawrence Douglas Adams Gilbert K. Chesterton John Ruskin Ricky Gervais Rudyard Kipling Thomas Paine

Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars. Pat Barker

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I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction. Pat Barker

Life Class Mind Perception Finished Thinking Changed Soldiers Characters Reconstruction Facial Area Unresolved Had Also Became Lot Left Conflicts Interested Them Sequel Whole Portraits

Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession. Pat Barker

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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. Pat Barker

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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with. Pat Barker

Me Balance Husband First Conviction Medium Trickery About Something Between Sincerity Also Very Familiar Which Grandmother Fascinates Novelists

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