"I've always written in a free, unencumbered way."

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Source : "I prefer birdsong to chatter". Interview with Helen Birch, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2005.

Joan Armatrading

“I do open endings on purpose. I expect a lot from my readers. I want them to do much of the work, because I believe that the story is built by the reader, not by the writer. I like having an open ending to a standalone fantasy, because it allows a continuing story to be written in the hearts of the readers.”

Source : Source: www.hbook.com
“Keep everybody guessing as to what your next trick is going to be. Don't become too predictable.”
“Only in Russia poetry is respected--it gets people killed.”

Source : "Hope Against Hope: A Memoir". Book by Nadezhda Mandelstam (Chapter 35), 1970.
“I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can.”
“I have to do what I'm supposed to do with my life. Don't think less of me.”
“I feel annoyed that in His wisdom, [God] chose to reel me in with middle-brow Christian fiction. It could be worse, I suppose. I could have come to faith while reading Left Behind.”
“I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that.”
“That's the greatest comeback since Lazarus.”

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