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The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.
I like poking my nose into other people's lives.
But there are some wounds that can never be healed.
Maybe this is pathetic, but I still dread producing a book that doesn't earn back its advance. I hate obligations that are financially foggy.
I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.
It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.
It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in... →
People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.
Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.
That's the best thing that's ever happened to me, bar none, is having grandchildren and living by them and being part of their lives.
I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the... →
We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope... But, as we got older and we... →
Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because I'm... →
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