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I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.
I think we think in terms of stories.
I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.
I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.
I'm not a great deep political thinker.
When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy!
It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.
Japanese food makes me feel particularly good.
Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.
There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier.
Writers are so used to books being optioned and then the movie never happens.
Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on... →
I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of... →