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My father Bill had a problem with Christmas. Although he appears in old photographs to possess a whippy, muscular frame, he was actually a frail man and usually managed to cause some kind of drama just before the festivities began.

~Christopher Fowler

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I didn't bother with television myself because it consisted largely of windmills, puppets and pottery wheels, interspersed with elderly men smoking pipes while they discussed Harold Macmillan in Old Etonian accents.

~Christopher Fowler

Topics: Accents Because Bother Discussed Elderly Harold Largely Men Myself Old Pipes Pottery Puppets Smoking Television Wheels While

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My bedroom was filled with reading material: books salvaged from dustbins, books borrowed from friends, books with missing pages, books found in the street, abandoned, unreadable, torn, scribbled on, unloved, unwanted and dismissed. My bedroom was the Battersea Dogs' Home of books.

~Christopher Fowler

Topics: Abandoned Bedroom Books Borrowed Dismissed Dogs Filled Found Friends Home Material Missing Pages Reading Street Torn Unloved Unwanted

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I consider myself a kind of a nerd, because when we go to the coffee shop in the mornings, we sit there in a very neat row with our laptops. It's just like being at work, but with coffee and panini. And, of course, you don't get paid.

~Christopher Fowler

Topics: Because Being Coffee Consider Course Get Go Just Kind Laptops Like Mornings Myself Neat Nerd Our Paid Row Shop Sit Very Work You

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I've always loved what I'd term 'dark fiction' writers, everyone from J. G. Ballard to Mervyn Peake and Philip Pullman. I'm not sure it's a genre, but it's what I like best.

~Christopher Fowler

Topics: Always Best Dark Everyone Fiction Fiction Writers Genre Like Loved Philip Sure Term Writers

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I don't divide my reading into demographic categories, any more than I'd divide my friends into groups along ethnic or sexual lines. The thing I look for most is a sense of literary rawness - bareback fiction, if you will.

~Christopher Fowler

Topics: Along Any Categories Demographic Divide Ethnic Fiction Friends Groups Lines Literary Look More Most Reading Sense Sexual Than Thing Will You

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Too many new writers dress up old cliches.

~Christopher Fowler

Topics: Cliches Dress Many New Old Too Up Writers

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Reality TV has blown away the need for a roster of familiar faces in films. Plus, films became franchise and didn't need stars. But the real difference between stars and celebrities is that stars have training and talent, and celebrities just have exposure.

~Christopher Fowler

Topics: Away Became Between Blown Blown Away Celebrities Difference Exposure Faces Familiar Films Franchise Just Need Plus Real Reality Reality Tv Stars Talent Training Tv

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My father worked in a scientific lab where he designed and built glass instruments. He was regarded as brilliant at his job and once constructed a human brain in glass just to show off his skills.

~Christopher Fowler

Topics: Brain Brilliant Built Constructed Designed Father Glass He His Human Human Brain Instruments Job Just Lab Off Once Regarded Scientific Show Show Off Skills Where Worked

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There's a melancholy sense of things lost in the shabbier British seaside towns; of comfortable failure and better times long gone.

~Christopher Fowler

Topics: Better British Comfortable Failure Gone Long Lost Melancholy Sense Things Times Towns

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: March 26th, 1953

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