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- If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that…
- Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted, strange or alien?…
- There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan facilities you could…
- From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.
- No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an…
- Mother used to say it meant Christopher was a nice name because it was a story about being kind and helpful, but I do not…
- I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don't like…
- But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.
- I want my name to mean me.
- And this shows that people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth. And it shows that something called Occam's…
- And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.
- One of the freedoms you get if you earn a lot of money from a book is to throw away what you want. And if…
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