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- Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a…
- Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?
- I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
- I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.
- I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic…
- It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
- My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or…
- All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I…
- I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
- When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language.…
- When I was 21, I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for 'The Simpsons' who'd briefly…
- I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick…
- Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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