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- Books
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- Nov 07, 2020
My books are anti-absolutist and deeply distrustful of any religious stance that precludes the validity of any other.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can't be a part-time Richard Dawkins.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art of the novelist is not unrelated to the illness of multiple personality disorder. It's a much milder form. But the better the book, the nearer to the padded cell you are.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
People like to say that East Asians in general, and Japanese in particular, are not very expressive: there's that term 'inscrutable.' But often, Europeans just don't get the Asian codes. Believe me, the message is being expressed OK.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on a national or cultural level.
- Calm
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- Nov 07, 2020
A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was about 14, in about 1984, I decided to become a great poet. Faber & Faber was going to publish me, and when Ted Hughes read my first anthology he would invite me to Yorkshire for meat pies and mentorship.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can - hubris, I suppose - without stopping to work out why.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still haven't quite got used to eating live fish.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Japanese food makes me feel particularly good.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it?
- Coming
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.
- Components
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm certainly a plot and character man. Themes, structure, style - they're valid components of a novel and you can't complete the book without them. But I think what propels me as a reader is plot and character.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think we think in terms of stories.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can write pretty much anywhere.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I talk about my artist parents, people imagine a bohemian environment and think, 'Aha, so that's where he gets it from!' But we were as white, straight, and middle-class as the next family on our white, straight, middle-class housing estate.
- Construction
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale.
- Happens
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers are so used to books being optioned and then the movie never happens.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy!
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.
- False
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- Nov 07, 2020
False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers, whereas a film's final cut vaporizes every other way it might have been made.
- Nov 07, 2020
Your environment affects you wherever you are.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a great deep political thinker.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day.
- Faithful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretation for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks of your day, or are at the mercy of flawed giant beings, then the desire to bend the laws of the world by magic is strong and deep.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that shows no sign of fading. Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Lemony Snicket are only three of the best known among a good number of equals.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can't get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020