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There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.
To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.
As a novelist, where do you go to tap into memories, and impressions, and sensations? It's usually, in my experience, your early life, before you... →
At a time when there's younger writers starting up and it's inevitable that you're becoming less fashionable, at a time when the... →
Do we change every time we have a new encounter? Are we endlessly mutable? I think these are fascinating questions: it's a rich vein to tap, and... →
Even though I've been an avid consumer of contemporary music since my early teens, the world of rock music has always been at something of a... →
Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't... →
I know many older writers who were very successful and whose books are now out of print, so you have to go to antiquarian booksellers to buy their... →
It's strange; when I was younger and people would ask, 'Where are you from?', I'd say, 'West Africa', which was odd because... →
What's important to me is that all of my books are in print - and, in a way, that becomes the challenge, not winning this prize or getting that... →
With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very best actor... →
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