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I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between…
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I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.
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Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.
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As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?
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As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to…
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But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because…
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But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context…
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Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and…
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With literature, sometimes a book is presented in the media as being say, a Muslim story or an African story, when essentially…
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Nothing about character is hereditary. Everyone, regardless of social background, financial status, race, or sex, enters the world with an equal opportunity…
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Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.
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As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to…
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