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Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head.
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You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.
- Father
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My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspaper, always watched the news, discussed it all the time.
- Landscape
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First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot is simply a function of what these people might do or be. Everything has to flow from their personalities; otherwise it will not be emotionally engaging, or plausible.
- Like
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My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.
- Past
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One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective on the present.
- Like
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Within reason, I can write what I like and spend as long doing it as is necessary. That is a luxury beyond price.
- Creeping
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I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.
- History
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History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.
- Light
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If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - it's like looking at a range of mountains. And the first time you see them, they look one way. But then time changes, the pattern of light shifts. Maybe you've moved slightly, your perspective has changed. The mountains are the same, but they look very different.
- I Can
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I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.
- Change
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Social mores change all the time. In the mid-1970s, it would've been astonishing, say, to see two men holding hands in the streets. And the attitude to having a fling with a girl, or whatever, was quite different then.
- Love
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I used to love politics. I can't say I do any more. All the fun has gone out of it. Each side is engaged in this trench warfare of managerialism. They're all too scared to say anything that might make them appear something other than completely bland.
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