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• False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
• Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.
• Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true!…
• A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving…
• A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points.
• For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.
• Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.
• I can write pretty much anywhere.
• I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.
• I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.'
• I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.
• I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.

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