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I think if you're writing about cricket, you're obviously writing about power, because cricket is such a loaded sport, much more so than... →
I think you sense the metaphorical resonance of what you're writing without analysing it too carefully. That leads you down dead ends. You stop... →
I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.
It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship. It involved singing lots of songs before you... →
When I read James Joyce, I'm not really interested in the Dublin of 1904. I'm interested in being in the presence of a voice and a... →
I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.
Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.
One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.
I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.
If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.
You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is pretty... →
I went to an international school in Holland, and I didn't have any memories of growing up in the United States or England or any of these places... →
I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me a very shallow Turk indeed.
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