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Everyone is obsessed with air fresheners. We associate smell with disgust. But we're all locked into the body; we can't escape it.

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Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.

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What I've absorbed of the gothic or paranormal has come mainly from films.

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Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams.

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I'm constantly dogged with a feeling of fraudulence, so if somebody tells me they like what I've written, then I immediately begin to think it's rubbish.

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In a fit of pique, I said to my agent, 'I'm going to write something you can sell.' The idea was to write a straight page-turner, with no literary conceits.

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There are two ways to write a werewolf novel - you can examine the genre conventions, or you can say, 'What would it be like if I were a werewolf?'

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I'm not quite sure when I began to be troubled by the creeping sense of my own ludicrousness, but it persisted - and eventually grew into a fascination. I started writing about it. Thus, in His characteristically mysterious way, the Lord made clear His plans for me.

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Until the age of thirteen, I tortured the waiting worlds of book illustration and professional football by shilly-shallying over which of them was going to get the benefit of my inestimable talents.

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I'm not very good at story. In fact, compared to character and language, I barely care about story at all.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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