Neil Cross Quotes

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• The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a ‘literary’ writer, but,…
• No, we don't walk away. But when we're holding on to something precious, we run. We run and run, fast as we can, and we…
• Because this exact leaf had to grow in that exact way, in that exact place, so that precise wind could tear it from that precise…
• I had a complicated life until I was 25. I was born in Bristol and was brought up by my mum and my stepfather in…
• Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue between you and…
• The fictional character with whom I most profoundly identified was Yossarian in Catch-22. Always did, still do.

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