- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Mad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was mad about the theatre growing up, really mad. We had a local theatre, the Torch, and I used to usher there. I would see the shows over and over again.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
When theatre works, it's like nothing else, and when it doesn't, which is often, it's excruciating. It's perhaps not so excruciating when a novel goes wrong, but there is a kind of magic that can and should happen.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to hate flying. I would sit there, rigid, convinced that if I relaxed, the plane would drop out of the sky.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
The relationship you have with your mother is like nothing else. They do kind of know everything about you, even though they don't confront it. That is often a dynamic from childhood onwards. As a teenager, you want to be independent and do slightly furtive things.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love research. Sometimes I think writing novels is just an excuse to allow myself this leisurely time of getting to know a period and reading its books and watching its films. I see it as a real treat.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've ended up feeling fonder of 'The Paying Guests' than of any of my other novels.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never managed to get very far with Henry James.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love film and, particularly, shorts. You don't get to see them often, and they're a great little form, like a short story.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like dramas because there's a big overlap between film and fiction, so I feel relatively qualified to talk about plot and characterisation and that sort of thing.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a great childhood. We weren't especially wealthy or anything, but I felt I had a kind of safety and freedom.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was encouraged to be imaginative and read, and it was a great childhood for a budding writer because I had the time and the freedom to go into a world of my own.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then new affluence.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were the first in our family to go to grammar school. My grandparents were in service.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I think I'd be perfectly happy to go on rewriting 'Tipping the Velvet' forever because it was so much fun.
- Climate Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ours is a world which feels so unsettled and dangerous in large ways, whether it's terrorism or global financial meltdown or climate change - huge things that affect us deeply, and yet things about which we can do, individually, very little.
- Interested
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm interested in stories that aren't getting told: it's where my interests lie.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do love the past but wouldn't want to live in it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People say, 'You're like Dickens', but I'm not like Dickens. Zadie Smith is a Dickensian writer because she's writing about society now, just as Dickens was writing about his society.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020