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False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.
As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an... →
Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true!... →
A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.
Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh metaphor... →
Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.
If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be... →
I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.
I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.
Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day.
Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part... →
There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can - hubris, I suppose - without stopping to work... →
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