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• Birds in flight, claims the architect Vincenzo Volentieri, are not between places - they carry their places with them. We never wonder…
• Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing…
• Quite often, ambition operates on a level of irritation. Not even jealousy, just irritation.
• I always like to be in the presence of people who are good at and love their jobs, Irrespective of their jobs.
• Beware of clichés. Not just the ­clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as…
• He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the…
• People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this qualification, obviously, did not…
• When you are lonely, writing can keep you company. It is also a form of self-compensation, a way of making up for…

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