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• I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last…
• I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
• I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives…
• Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its…
• As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.
• Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.
• I saw a ghost once, about 20 years ago. It took the form of someone coming out of a sleeping body and…
• I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest…

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