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The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the... →
Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them... →
I don't believe in the meteoric culture of anxiety, generally. Obviously, some people have it, some people are crippled by it, but most of the... →
We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a postmodern one, but... →
When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers about men clambering over... →
There's a horrible fallacy that exists in the popular discussion of fiction these days: the idea that a successful central character need be... →
Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of... →
Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our writing will live in several... →
As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.
High culture isn't what it used to be.
In Britain, the great hidden secret of talking animals and children's literature is how political it was in its bones, beneath the obvious... →
Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.
The characters in 'Be Near Me' come from a genuine place, a Britain that is more than one country and more than one ideal.
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