- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I know most is that the difference between us is what makes us interesting and attractive and problematic and exciting and vital to each other. Give me difference over indifference any day.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I sent them to some publishers and the fifth one who replied said they'd take them. Then they went bankrupt. Then that bankrupt publisher got bought by a bigger firm. Story: in the end is the beginning, and in the beginning is the end.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.
- Footage
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- Nov 07, 2020
How could 30 years be the blink-of-the-eye it felt? It was the difference between black-and-white footage of the Second World War and David Bowie on 'Top of the Pops' singing 'Life on Mars.'
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was at the tail end of the family. The next brother along was already seven years older than me. I remember growing up by myself, playing games by myself.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style. And style is integral to a work. How something is told correlates with - more - makes what's being told. A story is its style.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.
- Nov 07, 2020
I went to the top of Vesuvius and looked in.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father is from Newark in Nottinghamshire and my mother is from the very north of Ireland. They've ended up in Scotland, where my father - well, both of them - will always be seen as having come from somewhere else.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020