- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Vision
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without siblings you get quite a skewed vision of yourself and of the world. I always felt I didn't understand how it worked. I remember feeling quite lonely.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How do you write when you have no experience? How do you write straight out of university?'
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did feel when my mother died if anyone was going to haunt me it would be her. And she hasn't, so I think it is possibly the end.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I, you know, if I could choose a period to go back to, I think I would like to live through the Blitz. 'Cause you do read so many accounts of people saying they're living their lives at such an intense pitch that it was a completely different way of living.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I've a track record of talking about books I never write, in Australia they think I'm about to write a book about Jane Austen. Something I said at some festival.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
My work is not my life. I started writing quite late, I didn't have that 'writing is everything, my art is all.' You have to be able to recognise the difference between the two.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020