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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mind wanders terribly. I'm not wholly annoyed by my daydreaming as it has been immense use to me as regards imaginative thought, but it doesn't help when it comes to concentration. And writing needs concentration - lots of it.
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I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I started writing short stories, sort of as treatments for the film scripts, and I found I enjoyed writing short stories far more than I enjoyed writing film scripts. Then the short stories got longer and longer and suddenly, I had novels.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.
- Class
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- Nov 07, 2020
Class clowns become actors.
- Long
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It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.
- Freedom
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If you give children the freedom to do very little, quite a lot will do very little.
- Just
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When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened.
- Everybody
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I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.
- Down
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Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every book should have a romance.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not of the opinion that the next logical step for a book is for it to be made into a film.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.
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