I was always influenced by language.

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Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

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Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

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To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.

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I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay.

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When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is.

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I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing.

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Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

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Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

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If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.

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