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• I do not know why it matters that I should tell the truth to myself at night, why it should matter that…
• I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult, and this means, I think,…
• All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.
• Anyone who works in the arts knows, if you're writing a novel or a play or anything, you have to be ready…
• Between the ages of 8 and 12 it was difficult to know what my father was saying, and he moved very slowly,…
• I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.
• I live in words. I like looking at things, but I don't have a strong visual imagination.
• I suppose one should have an integrated personality, but I've never really seen the point.
• I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what…
• I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.
• I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was…
• It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.

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