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Feel
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Nov 07, 2020

I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.

Like
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

Better
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Nov 07, 2020

My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.

Mind
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Nov 07, 2020

Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.

Cross
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Nov 07, 2020

Cyclists. I really hate them. I wish they would not be so self-righteous and realise they are a danger to pedestrians. I wish cyclists would not vindictively snap off wing mirrors on cars when they were trying to cross in front of the car at a danger to motorists and pedestrians.

Live
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Nov 07, 2020

I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books.

Nov 07, 2020

I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his world, which is restful.

Fictive
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Nov 07, 2020

I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.

Nov 07, 2020

It's a terrible poison, writing.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.

Happens
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Nov 07, 2020

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

Paints
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Nov 07, 2020

I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

Expect
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.

Literature
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.

Pleasure
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Nov 07, 2020

There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

Eyes
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Nov 07, 2020

In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.

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