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I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.
The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
The Irish delight in stories, of whatever kind, because their telling and their reception are by now instinctive.
There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But i... (more William Trevor quotes)
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