I always start out saying exactly what everybody looks like. I don't know why.

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• Susanna Clarke:

  It's funny, because I don't think of myself as a novelist. I think of myself as a writer.

• Susanna Clarke:

  I tell stories. I kind of stumbled on that by trying to combine Jane Austen and magic.

• Susanna Clarke:

  I feel very much at home in the early nineteenth century and am not inclined to leave it.

• Susanna Clarke:

  It seemed to me that you make magic real by making it a little prosaic, a little difficult and disa

• Susanna Clarke:

  'Pride and Prejudice' is often compared to 'Cinderella,' but Jane Austen's real 'Cinderella' tale i

• Susanna Clarke:

  I must confess that in my teens and twenties, I loved 'Mansfield Park' rather in spite of Fanny tha

• Susanna Clarke:

  In some ways, 'Mansfield Park' is 'Pride and Prejudice' turned inside out.

• Susanna Clarke:

  She doesn't do the things heroines are supposed to. Which is rather Jane Austen's point - Fanny is

• Lyle Lovett:

  Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what s

• Lyle Lovett:

  Fortunately, I've never had a job.