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I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for... →
Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.
We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they're capable of very decent things: love, loyalty. When... →
When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence... →
I wouldn't want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all my exams again.
I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.
As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
I think jogging is bad for your health. All that pressure on the knees and back cannot be good for you.
I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by... →
There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of... →
What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers... →
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. I like the atmospheres that result if... →
We always like to keep our children in a kind of bubble and censor the bad news about the world. We like to tell them the world is full of... →
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