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Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Boarding
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Nov 07, 2020

I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school is good training for writers because it's so desperately lacking in privacy: you make space for yourself by having an interior life.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.

Cliffs
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Nov 07, 2020

Guernsey itself was overcrowded, but its cliffs were utterly empty. I spent a wonderful year with a friend, climbing them. It was sheer magic: you went from this pretty, busy village of an island to the sea cliffs and heard nothing but the gulls and the waves.

Nov 07, 2020

One of the reasons I wrote 'The Fall' is that climbing's more than a sport, it's a way of life. When you're in it, it's all you think about.

Easy
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Nov 07, 2020

I find it very easy to be alone. I'm a writer, for heaven's sakes!

Know
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Nov 07, 2020

When writing fiction, you only have to know enough to be convincing on the page. I mean really convincing, of course - but you don't need academic depth.

Always
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Nov 07, 2020

Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen.

Nov 07, 2020

Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.

Nov 07, 2020

Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time.

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