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We only value ourselves as others value us, for it might be said that we hold ourselves in trust for others.
Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.
To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.
To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if I can write it; otherwise, I won't want to.
I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.'
When you love, you entrust to that person your sense of your own worth, and if that person throws you aside, you believe profoundly and utterly that it is because you are worthless. That is a kind of death.
For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.
Living with my grandmother in Bath, I sort of thought I was living in the 19th century. My grandmother was someone who, in a way, was rather defiantly trying to live a pre-World War I existence.
