Pat Barker on Briseis, the main character of the novel The Silence of the Girls, based on the women from Homer’s Iliad:
“You can sometimes struggle for months to get the voice of a new character, but Briseis’s voice was there from the beginning, as if she was impatient to make herself heard. If I had to stop writing for a time, she was always there waiting for me when I got back.”
— Pat Barker
