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- My novels tend to come about from a fusion of two big ideas, creating a critical mass that then fissions, throwing off hundreds of other…
- Of course, with well-masticated food playing the role of social glue, it's absolutely essential that everyone clear their plate. Sod the starving kiddies in Africa…
- Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about…
- As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.
- As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.
- In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is the best we can hope…
- Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People who become obsessed by the peculiarities…
- The marvellous thing about writing, whether it be fiction or journalism, is that it is simultaneously the most intimate and the most anonymous of meetings…
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