- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.
- Archetypal
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- Nov 07, 2020
My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you become a doctor, that's your specialty in life and you are defined by it. One of the attractions of being a writer is that you're never a specialist. Your field is entirely open; your field is the entire human condition.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was in any way artistic or a potential mentor to a budding writer, and yet this is what I became.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a great bringer-up of children. My memories are of a sense of security and comfort.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that probably drew me to writing was that it was something you could get on with by yourself. Publishing means going public. But the actual activity could scarcely be more invisible. And private.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't reread my books.
- Appeared
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no such thing as the contemporary novel. Before I seem the complete reactionary, let me add that I've happily joined in many discussions about 'the contemporary novel' where what that usually, unproblematically means is novels that have appeared recently or may appear soon.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's an undeniable thrill in seeing what's most current in our lives offered back to us in fictional guise, but it soon dates and it's never enough.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The e-book does seem at the moment to threaten the livelihood of writers, because the way in which writers are paid for their work in the form of e-books is very much up in the air.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the purveyors of e-books are only too happy for this atmosphere of 'everything belongs to everybody' to increase because it means they don't have to think so much about the original maker of the thing, or they can get away with paying them less.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020