- Narrative
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never think of the reader. I am curious about things; I need to find out, so off I go.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problems of the world are not going to be engaged with and solved in Faversham, they're going to be sorted out in cities like Birmingham.
- Bitterness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product in almost every case.
- Nov 07, 2020
Retiring from writing is not to retire from life.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can't sing baritone when you're a soprano.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not good at dialogue. I'm not good at holding a mirror up at a real world. I'm not good at believable characterisation.
- London
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a youngster, I was brought up in a very political background on an estate in north London.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
English politics is so much more concerned with the proprieties than with defending dogmas.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing careers are short. For every 100 writers, 99 never get published. Of those who do, only one in every hundred gets a career out of it, so I count myself as immensely privileged.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I liked journalism and thought it was important, certainly more important than fiction. I'd probably still be doing it if I hadn't been elbowed out.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
After 25 years sitting on my own in a room, I was looking for a more companionable job and wanted to work more collaboratively. I've also been very lucky in my career, with good advances and multibook deals. But there is some extent to which I worried that I was writing for the contract and not for the impulse of the thing itself.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad didn't have a formal education, but he had a wonderful vocabulary. So in 'Harvest,' I wanted my main character to be an innately intelligent man who would have the vocabulary to say whatever he wanted in the same way as lots of working-class people can.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020