"From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old."

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My mother is a good woman - a very good woman - and I am, I think, not quite all criminality, but we do not pull together. I am a piece of machinery which, not understanding, my mother winds up the wrong way, setting all the wheels of my composition going in creaking discord.

— Miles Franklin