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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a very secretive person.
- Gulf Coast
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have tested my nerve by reaching a little too closely toward a lengthy alligator on the Gulf Coast and a saucer-sized tarantula in a Houston car park.
- Awaiting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most I have to fear while hiking in Warwickshire and Worcestershire, the two historic British counties closest to my city home in Birmingham, is whether or not the mud awaiting me in the narrow lanes ahead is deep enough to foul my socks.
- Despised
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have, I must admit, despised the English countryside for much of my life - despised it and avoided it for its want of danger and adventure.
- Nov 07, 2020
You stand beneath the arthritic boughs of any English oak, and you survey a thousand tales.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know my 17-year-old self would read my bourgeois fiction, full of metaphors and rhythmic prose, with a sinking heart.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt that, in some ways, my novels lacked heart because of the distance between me and the subject matter. But no one wants to read a book based on good health, a happy upbringing, a long marriage.
- Rest
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you start a novel, it is always like pushing a boulder uphill. Then, after a while, to mangle the metaphor, the boulder fills with helium and becomes a balloon that carries you the rest of the way to the top. You just have to hold your nerve and trust to narrative.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a Midlander and a big walker, I'd always loved ridge and furrow fields, the plough-marked land as it was when it was enclosed. It is the landscape giving you a story of lives that ended with the arrival of sheep.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors, and their toes are going to curl up.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very aware when I share a stage with other writers that I'm much less driven than they are. I don't wake up in the middle of the night, pregnant with paragraphs. I don't suffer for my text twenty-four hours a day.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My tongue is what I used instead of my fists because I was a small and cowardly young man. Amusing people with stories and being bizarre with words was my way of getting out of fixes.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020