- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a certain inescapable attachment. If you are born somewhere and circumstances don't take you away from it, then you grow up and remain within it.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course there are times when I hate London, but equally there are times when I can walk 'round a corner and I really feel that this is my place.
- Amazing Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to begin with what you might call the very small world of personal life. But I am certainly interested in how that small, intimate world connects or doesn't connect with a larger world.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a novelist, I suppose I can say that I'm highly articulate. But I know, as a person, in other ways, I'm not always articulate. I think we are all, from time to time, inarticulate, at some level, about some things.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
London is like no other city I know in its ability to become beautiful. You can suddenly turn a corner and there are odd moments - of light, of weather.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people read 'Tomorrow' and feel that it is offering them some view of my own household, they would be very, very wrong.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020