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You find out what you think by talking to yourself.
Cut your manuscript ruthlessly but never throw anything away: it's amazing how often a discarded scene or description, which wouldn't fit in... →
I used to love politics. I can't say I do any more. All the fun has gone out of it. Each side is engaged in this trench warfare of managerialism.... →
Having the urge to write a novel, especially if you've yet to be published, is like having a medical condition impossible to mention in polite... →
I can't get very excited about the House of Commons these days because I don't feel the power is there. What is really bizarre is that you... →
I like to take people you wouldn't really think people would write novels about: an aqueduct engineer, a code-breaker, a hedge-fund manager.... →
I see myself as the literary equivalent of a skilled lathe-operator, or a basket-weaver; a potter, maybe: I make mildly diverting objects that people... →
My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspaper, always watched the news, discussed it all the... →
My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade unionist and Labour... →
The financial markets tend to be just a backdrop for a novel, for a heist or something that isn't necessarily integral to it. On the whole, I... →
We live in an age of great jitteriness in the financial markets. And there's no doubt at all, I think, that the volume of computer-traded stocks... →
Writing a novel - unlike operating a piece of heavy machinery, say, or cooking a chicken - is not a skill that can be taught. There is no standard... →
You know, you can be really quite subversive in popular fiction, which is capable of taking on big issues of politics, war, the rise and fall of... →
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