<p>"I am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration, or a metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my ideas flow as fast as the rain in the store-closet it would be charming."</p>
<p><strong>1949-</strong></p>
<p><br/>"I don't have any ambition to make great literature. I'll do anything to keep my kids in Reeboks."<br/></p>
<p>"Books constantly change even though the words are the same. The world changes, people change, people find a book at the right moment and it answers something, some need or desire."</p>
<p>"My fictional project has always been the invention or discovery of my own country."</p>
<p>"I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building. "</p>
<p>The publication of The Journals of Sylvia Plath (Faber, £30) was, as <strong>Jacqueline Rose</strong> noted in the <strong>Observer</strong>, "heralded as an event of some literary significance". Ms Rose, an authority on Plath, was...
<p>Long-lost diaries promise to reveal her darkest secrets. But is this macabre industry ignoring her work?</p>
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<p>John Dugdale examines What If?, a collection of speculative essays edited by Robert Cowley. Plus: Extra Virgin by Annie Hawes, and Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination by Gerald M Edelman and Giulio Tononi</p>
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