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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people asked me what I did, I'd say, 'I work in publishing', and when they then say, 'What side of it?', I say, 'Supply' - no doubt leaving them to think I drive the books around in a van and deliver them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no comparison. The American landscape is so much more dangerous. They have real snakes, mountain lions, bears; we only have adders, and they're more frightened of us than we are of them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a working-class background where I was much more likely to read socialist books and leaflets than Bronte or Dickens - neither of whom I've yet read.
- Countryside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up in a flat in North London - virtually the last building in London, because north of us was countryside all the way to the coast, and south of us was non-stop London for 20 miles.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though my brother and I loved scrumping - we loved the act of climbing trees and grabbing fruit - there was always fear we would be caught. We feared we'd be imprisoned, sent to Australia.
- Dickens
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never finished anything by Dickens.
- Chasing
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- Nov 07, 2020
For 'The Gift of Stones,' I spent an afternoon chasing a flock of Canadian geese.
- Kinder
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- Nov 07, 2020
I should have been kinder when I was younger.
- Heavens
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not - thank heavens - one of those 'driven' writers who spend a fortnight buckled with empty fright over an untouched page only to wake at two in the morning feverish with paragraphs.
- Writer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a matter-of-fact, office-hours writer.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sixteen years as a freelance features journalist taught me that neither the absence of 'the Muse' nor the presence of 'the block' should be allowed to hinder the orderly progress of a book.
- Colleague
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good old-fashioned, puritanical work guilt is, for me, a better colleague than any Muse. If I reach my weekly word target by Friday afternoon, then the weekend is guilt-free.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the uncontrollable and unpredictable parts of my life - from the actual creation to my emotional responses to the finished book - I've succeeded in banishing to the office. And I think I'm happier for it.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of me feels that I'm letting people down by not being as interesting as my books.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd dearly love to write a political book that changed the hearts and minds of men and women.
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- Nov 07, 2020