Ask the Author: Norma Clarke
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Norma Clarke
I think I got the idea for 'Not Speaking' when I was about twelve, but it wasn't really the idea for the book, more a conviction that there would be a book. After that it was cumulative, and I finally wrote it when I was past sixty.
Norma Clarke
Excitement is important - about things in life or in my head.
Norma Clarke
Quite a few things but I won't jinx them by saying anything about them.
Norma Clarke
Keep writing, keep thinking, and be true to yourself. (This is not original advice, but it bears repeating.)
Norma Clarke
That's easy. Being able to do what you love, even when you don't love it (or it doesn't love you - see above).
Norma Clarke
It's never easy. I try to keep busy, keep reading, writing and thinking, and go for walks.
Norma Clarke
I'm a writer and I'm asked for a story. I can't do it.
Norma Clarke
I'd like to go to Folio in Piers Torday's 'The Lost Magician' and 'The Frozen Sea'. 'The Frozen Sea' is just out (second volume in what will be a trilogy) and it's brilliant. What would I do there? Defend the importance of books and imagination of course!
Norma Clarke
It's a bit late for a summer reading list, but I have been sorting my books and trying to make room on my shelves for new ones, and I came on a very brittle and dusty old orange Penguin edition of Henry Miller's 'The Colossus of Maroussi', which I remember loving when I was in my twenties, and have started reading it and am loving it all over again.
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