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“I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.”

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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

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I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

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“He had been violently confused by her real presence in the opposite inaccessible corner. For months he had been possessed by the imagination of her. She had been distant and closed away, a princess in a tower, and his imagination’s work had been all to make her present, all of her, to his mind and senses, the quickness of her…

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Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood… storytelling is intrinsic to biological time, which we cannot escape. Life, Pascal said, is like living in a prison from which every day fellow prisoners are taken away to be executed. We are all, like Scheherazade, under sentence of death, and we all…

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“Pedro of Portugal's rapt and bizarre declaration of love, in 1356, for the embalmed corpse of his murdered wife, Inez de Castro, who swayed…

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I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.

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I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that virtue will…

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I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

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Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world,…

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I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.

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I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live - I don't think I've…

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“When the morning light came into the room it found them curled together in a nest of red and white sheets. It revealed also marks, all over the pale cool skin: handprints around the narrow waist, sliding impressions from delicate strokes, like weals, raised rosy discs where his lips had rested lightly. He cried out, when he saw her, that…

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Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour.

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It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is not necessary to have expensive food on the plates before they can enter the dining room as things of beauty in colour and texture. Food should be served with real care as to the colour and texture on…

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People frequently ask me why I devote so much time to seeking out facts about man’s past…the past shows clearly that we all have…

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Walk out like someone suddenly born into colour. Do it now.

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As soon as I turned the key I saw it hanging, the color of fire and sunset. the colour of flamboyant flowers. ‘If you…

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All color is no color.

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To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like formlessness and the rest, can be real only as an idea, and so all I can do is create a colour nuance that means grey but is not it. The painting is then a mixture of grey as…

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