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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very fortunate in that I don't have money problems. I have lunch with my wife at home. I don't have to commute, so I have much more time with my family.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, that's 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British, and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me eligible for literary awards. But I still think I'm regarded as one of their own in Japan.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write - with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on and many that I had no control over whatsoever.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. I like the atmospheres that result if episodes are narrated through the haze of memory.
- Fragment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one solid scene doesn't have to fall on another solid scene, you can just have a fragment that then dovetails into another one that took place 30 years apart from it.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always trying to make something that is impossible to film. Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel. With a novel, you can get right inside somebody's head.
- Brave
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not at all interested in the brave who fight against the odds and win. I am interested in those who accept their lot, as that is what many people in the world are doing. They do their best in ghastly conditions.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, I didn't read that much. I was more interested in film and music. Now I'm curious. I want to know what it's all about.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to always go for something... very interior, following thoughts and memories, something that I think is difficult to do on the screen, which is essentially a third-person medium.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the film as a film.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wife is the most savage critic. She doesn't feel intimidated by my reputation. As far as she's concerned, she's just criticising a boyfriend who'd recently had a go at fiction. She can tell me to abandon whole novels.
- Detective
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
To some extent, at least, you have to shield children from what you know and drip-feed information to them. Sometimes that is kindly meant, and sometimes not.
- Survive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want my words to survive translation.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020