- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's one profound difference between secular and religious pilgrimages. It's inconceivable that a Muslim would feel a sense of anticlimax when reaching Mecca. But for a secular pilgrim, the potential for disappointment is always there.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
In history books, or the one about the guy who cut his hand off to get out of a canyon in Utah, you really want them to be accurate. But my stuff is such small beer by comparison.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't get on a plane until I was 23, after I left Oxford and was teaching at Lucy Clayton Secretarial College in London.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I got into travelling because it was so not in my blood, so against my tendency to just stay put because my dad just hated going on holidays, because, as I've said in many essays, the thing that he hated more than anything else in life was spending money. And as soon as you leave your home, you're spending money.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lesson of travel seems to be so banal, but so great, which is that people are just so amazingly decent the world over. Given the disparity of income and wealth, it's amazing not just that you don't get robbed everywhere - it's amazing you don't get eaten.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could never write a book where the point-of-view character was a short person, because I just can't imagine what that's like.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do understand my limitations as a fiction writer, which is why my novels are always going to be close to home.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you just take me as a fiction writer, then you're probably going to find me fairly limited.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't read 'genre' fiction if that means novels with lots of killing and shooting. Even Cormac McCarthy's 'No Country for Old Men' seemed pretty childish in that regard.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am still moved by passages of Marx: the 'Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,' for example, where, after the famous line about religion being 'the opium of the people,' he goes on to call it 'the heart of a heartless world.'
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't read much of anything till I was 15, except Alistair MacLean and Michael Moorcock - the sword and sorcery novels - when I was about 13 or 14.
- Left
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm as strong and supple as a pane of thin glass. I've got too many ailments - left shoulder, left elbow and left wrist - in fact, the whole of the left arm.
- Nov 07, 2020
I really like to win at sport.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm never happier when writing than when I see gags taking shape - ideally, gags at my own expense. What I like is the shuttling back and forth, serious into comedy and vice-versa, ideally, both in the same sentence, or even simultaneously. The best jokes are always ideas in miniature.
- Fiction
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have this long-running idea that the distinction between fiction and nonfiction is not just, 'Did it happen or didn't it happen?' It's one of form.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember being interviewed about my first novel, 'The Colour of Memory.' They kept using the expression 'your first novel,' and I said, 'No, I object to that phrase, because this is it for me.'
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
While writing, I'm always so happy in the middle of a book or finishing a book and really hate starting them, so I often think, 'I wish I had a really big book to write to which I could devote seven years of my life.'
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't require much thought for one to realise that any travel book worthy of the name has to be a departure from the standard idea of the form.
- Landscape
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- Nov 07, 2020