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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
- American Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
- Licensed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is a form of licensed madness.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
After being rejected for years, I found a publisher for 'Keeper,' and it won prizes, and then I had to write a second and a third book because I kept taking the money and spending it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a nonsense because, as we all know, there are brilliant 15-year-old readers and hopeless 50-year-old readers. All that categorisation is a matter of bookshop shelves rather than literary categories, I think.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find myself, by happy accident, writing 'Young Adult' fiction. However, I dislike such categories.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.
- Nov 07, 2020
If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can ask for a £25,000 advance, but then you spend a year writing the book, and £25,000 is a loan against sales, and you can easily spend five years earning out. So that's £25,000 for six years.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Remember that a good football novel has to have the same ingredients as any other good novel: drama, convincing and interesting characters, a strong story-line, and some kind of magic in the writing.
- Chess
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone who sits on a sofa watching 'Match of the Day' is a top soccer expert, as you know. So if you start to worry about such people reading your story and saying, 'That'd never happen' you're going to freeze up. You're writing fiction, and your characters can do whatever you need them to do.
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- Nov 07, 2020