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I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around on... →
I think that there must be a point of self-immersion in a story that is a point of no return. You get far enough in that the story has really touched... →
I used to feel an obligation to invent things. I felt I was a failure because I didn't do massive great novels about Australia or the outback or... →
It's much more interesting for me to think that taking a chunk of experience and mushing it up together with other things that are inventible... →
It's very shocking, I think, for people caring for the dying to realise how unsaintly they feel, how much anger is mixed up with their grief. In... →
Life's fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for air.... →
There's only one thing I know what to do, so I'm pretty much otherwise unemployable. The idea that you can make a living from exercising your... →
While I was writing 'The Spare Room,' I thought, 'I'm going to look really bad in this book - there's no redeeming this kind of... →
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