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Quotes by Diana Athill

‘It really is most extraordinary, having lived all these years as a cheerful but inconspicuous blue-stockinged, gray-haired, backseat publishing lady, to become a sort of show- stopper.’

92-year-old author of Somewhere Towards the End

'Writing shouldn't come between the reader and what's being described. It should be as transparent as possible.'

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