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You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.

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Joanna Trollope
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 9
Novelist
Writer
Minchinhampton
Gloucestershire
Caroline Harvey
Absolutely
Situation
Cannot
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People

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Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.
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I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate!
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You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.
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My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.
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Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.
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