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- Books are like people. Some look deceptively attractive from a distance, some deceptively unappealing; some are easy company, some demand hard work that isn’t guaranteed…
- From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.
- I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.
- I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to…
- I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated…
- I went to boarding school, and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of people to become…
- Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which…
- People think that alien spaceships would be solid and made of metal and have lights all over them and move slowly through the sky because…
- I rolled back onto the lawn and pressed my forehead to the ground again and made the noise that Father calls groaning. I make this…
- And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you. And…
- The word "metaphor" means carrying something from one place to another . . . and it is when you describe something by using a word…
- There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace…
- When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in…
- One of the freedoms you get if you earn a lot of money from a book is to throw away what you want. And if…
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