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- Laptop
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
It may be something to do with my having been to a girls' school, but I'm far more comfortable making male friendships than female ones. My friends tend to be men and their significant others.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father when he visited France as a student on a teaching placement.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used food wonderfully as a metaphor for sensuality.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think everybody has a secret life.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a past that has never quite left them. They are often isolated, introspective people, often confrontational or anarchic in some way, often damaged or secretly unhappy or incomplete.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes more real than the view from our bedroom window. Fictional people can sometimes become as close to us as our loved ones.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
The interesting thing about the Internet is that it has created a kind of alternative circle of friends for people.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
A little tantrum in real life seems so much bigger online.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were language teachers. They talked about teaching all the time and all their friends were teachers. It was considered a pre-ordained thing that I would go into teaching.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to write about more than one generation because as a child I had contact with more than one generation; it was normal to be around older people.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't tend to do category fiction very well. One of my problems when I was starting off was that publishers were hesitant to handle my books because they were never sure what I was going to do next.
- Ending
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
People reveal so much of their mental processes online, simply because the psychological effect of anonymity just means that a whole raft of inhibitions are left alone when people log on.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a great grandmother who believed in so many strange superstitions. She used to tell the future from the things that catch on to the hem of your skirt when you've been sewing, and different colored threads would mean different things... Of course, all that influenced me quite a lot as a child.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys.
- Left
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm politically inclined towards the left, but I don't like to be in anyone's gang; I'm a bit of a loose cannon.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm insatiably curious.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a very bad accountant; I didn't care about money, golf or discovering fraud. After about a year I was sacked; then I went into teacher training.
- Closest Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I've ever had a mentor. The closest thing is my friend Christopher Fowler, another writer. Chris kept me sane for a long time before I made it.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have an English identity and a French identity. When I'm in France, I'm more outgoing. And the French part of me cooks, whereas the English part of me writes.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sublimate different parts of my personality through my characters. Which is worrying, as some of them can be a bit nasty. I'm pleased the stuff on the page isn't inside me any more.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm quite an untidy person in a lot of ways. But order makes me happy. I have to have a clear desk and a tidy desktop, with as few visual distractions as possible. I don't mind sound distractions, but visual ones freak me out.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was convinced I'd hate Twitter - but I've come to like it very much. I use it mostly to keep in touch with friends and colleagues I wish I could see more often - I sometimes feel a little isolated living in Yorkshire, and it's nice to have the contact.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some areas of technology really don't interest me at all, but I welcome anything that makes life easier instead of harder.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can actually get someone to sit on the edge of their seat and feel nervous if there's a knock at the door, then you've done something pretty terrific as a writer.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020