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“People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.”

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As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.

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“As my voice died away I became conscious of the voice of another woman two tables away. I couldn't hear what she was saying…

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That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all education with…

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I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their…

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What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of…

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I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to…

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I'm very happy for whatever plaudits might come the way of my work, but I never ever sit down to write x with y…

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As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.

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“I explained to him - as I withdrew the cup, ripped open the sachet and dunked the tea bag - that tea was an…

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There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit…

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It would seem that I, who never could make much sense of physics when I was at school, have now gained a strong sense…

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I think every woman character, every female character, has her own arc.

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