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Susanna Clarke
Susanna Clarke
English Author
Born: Nov 1, 1959
Austen Because Down Me Strange You
Related authors: A. A. Milne H. G. Wells J. K. Rowling Lewis Carroll Mary Shelley Samuel Johnson Simon Sinek Terry Pratchett
I always really liked magicians. I'm not even sure why - except that they know things other people don't, and they live in untidy rooms full of strange objects. Susanna Clarke
Strange People Live Other Magicians Objects Except Know Liked Sure Always Rooms Really Full Even Why Things
Alan Moore is a peculiarly unsung triumph of British culture, and Northampton, where he was born in 1953, the son of brewery worker Ernest and printer Sylvia, is where you must go to find him. Susanna Clarke
You Son Culture Moore Must Find Born Triumph He Unsung Him Printer Go Where Worker Alan British
In 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell,' I wanted to create the most convincing story of magic and magicians that I could. Susanna Clarke
Strange Magic Magicians Could Jonathan Most Wanted Story Create Convincing
I can write most places. I particularly like writing on trains. Being between places is quite liberating, and looking out of the window, watching a procession of landscapes and random-ish objects, is very good for stories. Susanna Clarke
Good Writing Looking Liberating Out Window Objects Write Between Like Most Particularly Very Trains Quite Being Stories Procession Places Landscapes Watching
One way of grounding the magic is by putting in lots of stuff about street lamps, carriages, and how difficult it is to get good servants. Susanna Clarke
Good Difficult Way Magic One-Way About Putting Stuff How Lots Get Lamps Grounding Servants Street
You can get this feeling of the English or Scottish or Irish or Welsh fairy, but it is by nature very elusive. It would be possible to pin down a German fairy, but the English one just vanishes, becomes the shadow under the trees. Susanna Clarke
Nature You Feeling Down Trees Elusive Possible Would Would-Be Vanishes Shadow Fairy Becomes Welsh Pin German Very Irish Scottish Get Just English
I always start out saying exactly what everybody looks like. I don't know why. Susanna Clarke
Saying Everybody Out Exactly Exactly What Like Know Looks Always Why Start
I tell stories. I kind of stumbled on that by trying to combine Jane Austen and magic. Susanna Clarke
Tell Kind Magic Combine Stumbled Austen Trying Stories Jane Jane Austen
I feel very much at home in the early nineteenth century and am not inclined to leave it. Susanna Clarke
Home Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Feel Am Leave Very Century Much Inclined Early
It seemed to me that you make magic real by making it a little prosaic, a little difficult and disappointing - never quite as glamorous as the other characters imagine. Susanna Clarke
Me You Difficult Other Characters Magic Seemed Glamorous Never Disappointing Make Making Real Quite Little Imagine
'Pride and Prejudice' is often compared to 'Cinderella,' but Jane Austen's real 'Cinderella' tale is 'Mansfield Park.' Susanna Clarke
Pride Cinderella Park Pride And Prejudice Tale Real Austen Often Jane Prejudice Compared
In some ways, 'Mansfield Park' is 'Pride and Prejudice' turned inside out. Susanna Clarke
Pride Ways Out Inside Inside-Out Some Park Pride And Prejudice Turned Prejudice

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