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• Looking after children can be a subtle way of giving up... They become the whole ones, the well ones, the postponement of…
• It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they…
• Irony is the hardest addiction of all. Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, the deep-down need to mean two things at…
• Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.
• I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?
• I'm not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situations I was in.
• It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation.
• The Booker 2011 is of no more interest to me than the world heavyweight championship, which I'm not going to win either.…
• The first book I fell in love with was 'Little Toot,' the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of New York…
• The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out.
• Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that…
• I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writing. And they're…

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