- Nov 07, 2020
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics and the freakier reaches of the Internet, hunting the next discovery, the next seam of underground gold.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's a way of doing it that has a lot of merit.
- Indian
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.
- Global
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic and pointless.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Suburbia is all about private ownership and not having to share, and it leads to a paranoid, defensive mindset. I know this, having grown up in Essex.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.
- Evening
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing New York likes more than a thing. Or a place. Or a place that's a thing. Or a thing that happens to be a place.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to think, I get harrumphy.
- Morality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020