"I've always been a jabberer. I just talked. I see everything in images. The plot sort of unfolds. Even the dialogue. In the morning, it's all there to put down."
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Catherine Cookson
Dame Catherine Ann Cookson DBE (née McMullen; 20 June 1906 – 11 June 1998) was a British writer. Her works were once the most borrowed from British public libraries and she is in the top 20 of the most widely read British novelists, with sales topping 100 million. Her books were inspired by her deprived youth in South Shields (historically part of County Durham), North East England, the setting for her novels. Her total output was 104 titles published in her own name or under two other pen names
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