- Nov 07, 2020
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- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being shortlisted for the Swansea University International Dylan Thomas Prize is, of course, a real honour for me and my work. When I wrote 'Conversations with Friends,' it was hard for me to imagine the book even finding readers - so it's a huge privilege to find it judged alongside such exciting and innovative new writing. I'm very grateful.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I gave myself the small task of writing honestly about the kind of life I knew. I believe there is some value in carrying out that task, however limited.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing debating did was bring me in contact with a whole social world that I had never experienced before. It's sort of a very international, very niche hobby.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at the history of the letter in the novel, small changes in the British postal service became really significant because of how quickly people are suddenly able to communicate, and letters actually arrive at the intended time, and they arrive to the correct recipient. All of this is really important to a plot.
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have any answers as to whether the Internet is a good or a bad thing, but it's certainly an important thing for the novel because novels are so much about communication, and when communication changes, the novel has to change.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find myself consistently drawn to writing about intimacy and the way we construct one another.
- Idea
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really believe in the idea of the individual.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't help feeling that I am not a very important person, and being treated like one gives me strange feelings.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot write about what people are really like without making a political adjudication. All our ideas of what human nature consists of or how people really feel and experience life are, at their base, political ideas.
- Comfortable
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not totally comfortable with the ways in which our culture monetises art and literature.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not sure that the culture of literary prizes is always a good thing, but while there are literary prizes, it's nice to be nominated.
- Hang
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't quite get the hang of how to socialise as a teenager. I didn't really understand it.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
What does it mean to have a healthy relationship? It's such a strangely clinical way of talking about interpersonal dynamics, like you can do a white blood cell count and say, 'No, it's not looking good for that one.' It's impossible to have a loving relationship in which you never cause pain and no pain ever is caused to you.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very introverted. Easily a few days could go by where I would not really leave the house or talk to anybody other than my partner.
- Than
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would rather do two things really, really, really well than do 16 things and have 14 of them fail.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think of myself as busy because I don't even have to get dressed most days.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020