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Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretation for the... →
People like to say that East Asians in general, and Japanese in particular, are not very expressive: there's that term 'inscrutable.' But... →
Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers, whereas a... →
The art of the novelist is not unrelated to the illness of multiple personality disorder. It's a much milder form. But the better the book, the... →
When I was about 14, in about 1984, I decided to become a great poet. Faber & Faber was going to publish me, and when Ted Hughes read my first... →
When you're out of your own cultural context you have conversations with yourself that you just don't have at any other point in your life.... →
I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points.
For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.
I can write pretty much anywhere.
I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.'
I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.
I still haven't quite got used to eating live fish.
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