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• Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.
• I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to…
• Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
• I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
• I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.
• I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
• I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things…
• In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.

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