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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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I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've…
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I was mainly in a state of nervousness while I wrote it - nervousness that it was far bigger and more complicated…
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I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative…
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Revisionist historians are about to get their hands on the Thatcher years, shes probably going to be looked at again because she…
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I went straight in. Fade in, one... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station.
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As far as critics, I'm not a hip guy. I was never on drugs. Nobody ever felt sorry for me 'cause I…
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One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point.
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I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky.
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I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because…
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