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- I remember so clearly, in the early days, if I had to do a piece of press, they'd phone for me and say, 'Oh, we're…
- I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people…
- As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get…
- Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you…
- She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.
- You say you want to talk, But you don't . You stonewall me.
- This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.
- We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers do…
- These days, it feels to me like you make a devil's pact when you walk into this country. You hand over your passport at the…
- Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources.
- (Feedback) People become addicted to it. That’s why journalism is so popular, because you want to hear, every day, what people think of what you…
- Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
- I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.
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