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I do not really write for children: I write only for me and for the few people I hope to please, and I write for the story.
~ Sonya Hartnett
Children
Few
Few People
Hope
I Write
Me
Only
People
Please
Really
Story
Write
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I don't understand why one should be one thing or the other. Writing, to me, is writing is writing. It should be a flexible tool. Whatever skills I have, have to work for me; I won't be dictated by them.
~ Sonya Hartnett
Dictated
Flexible
Me
One Thing
Other
Should
Skills
Them
Thing
Tool
Understand
Whatever
Why
Work
Writing
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I feel it in my bones that if I had a kid, I would not either continue to write or have written the book I have done. So it's just me and the dog. I've always gotten along better with animals than I have with children, anyway.
~ Sonya Hartnett
Along
Always
Animals
Anyway
Better
Bones
Book
Children
Continue
Dog
Done
Either
Feel
Gotten
Had
I Feel
Just
Kid
Me
Than
Would
Write
Written
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I have spent a great deal of my time defending my work against those who see it as too complicated, too old in approach, too bleak to qualify as children's literature. This has been the bane of my life.
~ Sonya Hartnett
Against
Approach
Bane
Been
Bleak
Children
Complicated
Deal
Defending
Great
Great Deal
Has-Been
Life
Literature
My Life
My Time
Old
Qualify
See
Spent
Those
Time
Too
Who
Work
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I have thought you could not give everything to your books and also to your children, so for a long time, I thought if I had a child or a family, I'd think, 'How would I support them?' because basically I would stop writing.
~ Sonya Hartnett
Also
Basically
Because
Books
Child
Children
Could
Everything
Family
Give
Had
How
Long
Long Time
Stop
Support
Them
Think
Thought
Time
Would
Writing
You
Your
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I mostly wrote 'Thursday's Child' to explore the idea of a wild child - a creature who lived much as humans used to live, when our needs were simple and our worlds were small.
~ Sonya Hartnett
Child
Creature
Explore
Humans
Idea
Live
Lived
Mostly
Much
Needs
Our
Simple
Small
Thursday
Used
Were
Who
Wild
Worlds
Wrote
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I spent three years at RMIT doing a bachelor of arts and media studies. It was a hugely formative experience. As someone who had a private Catholic school upbringing, the world suddenly became a much bigger and better place for me.
~ Sonya Hartnett
Arts
Bachelor
Became
Better
Better Place
Bigger
Catholic
Catholic School
Doing
Experience
Formative
Had
Hugely
Me
Media
Much
Place
Private
School
Someone
Spent
Studies
Suddenly
Three
Upbringing
Who
World
Years
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I think there is something in my books that says these are people doing their best under difficult circumstances - sometimes they do wrong things and make mistakes, but who doesn't? And who wants to read about somebody who never does?
~ Sonya Hartnett
About
Best
Books
Circumstances
Difficult
Difficult Circumstances
Does
Doing
I Think
Make
Mistakes
Never
People
Read
Says
Somebody
Something
Sometimes
Things
Think
Wants
Who
Wrong
Wrong Things
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If I'm desperate, I'll read anything. But even when I can be choosy, I still have no hard-and-fast rules. I have rules about what I won't read, rather than what I will. No science fiction, no romance, no chick lit. Although even these rules can be broken.
~ Sonya Hartnett
About
Although
Anything
Broken
Chick
Choosy
Desperate
Even
Fiction
I Can
Lit
Rather
Read
Romance
Rules
Science
Science Fiction
Still
Than
Will
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I'll always struggle over saying I'm a writer, even if I won the Booker Prize.
~ Sonya Hartnett
Always
Even
Over
Prize
Saying
Struggle
Won
Writer
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I've never really been able to tolerate zoos.
~ Sonya Hartnett
Able
Been
Never
Really
Tolerate
Zoo
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