- Nov 07, 2020
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- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.
- Graham
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade unionist and Labour supporter.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't get very excited about the House of Commons these days because I don't feel the power is there. What is really bizarre is that you sense it is not in Washington either. It is now very hard even to locate the levers of power, let alone to pull them and change things.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
To tell a good story and to illuminate the world: the two things are completely linked. That is the point. That is what I've always wanted to do.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to take people you wouldn't really think people would write novels about: an aqueduct engineer, a code-breaker, a hedge-fund manager. It's in those sorts of lives that I find more fascination than in a CIA operative or a Marine or something like that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Storytelling has a narcotic power.
- Cooking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing a novel - unlike operating a piece of heavy machinery, say, or cooking a chicken - is not a skill that can be taught. There is no standard way of doing it, just as there is no means of telling, while you're doing it, whether you're doing it well or badly. And merely because you've done it well once doesn't mean you can do it well again.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having the urge to write a novel, especially if you've yet to be published, is like having a medical condition impossible to mention in polite company - it's a relief simply to know there are fellow-sufferers out there.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.
- Discarded
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cut your manuscript ruthlessly but never throw anything away: it's amazing how often a discarded scene or description, which wouldn't fit in one place, will work perfectly later.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020