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There are, I'm depressed to say, many classics I have not yet read and will probably never get around to, though I will not stop short of hospitalizing myself in the attempt.

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I haven't won any prizes or had any best sellers.

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We have grown up in an age where there is nothing that cannot now, courtesy of computer-generated imagery, be convincingly rendered in the visual field.

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I read John Irving's novel 'The World According To Garp' when I was about 14 or 15. It was the first grown-up book that I had read. It is the story of a young man who grows up to be a novelist. I finished it, and I wanted to write a book that made the reader feel the way I felt at the end of that, which was sort of both bereft and elated.

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For a long time, I'd wanted to write a book that I would be proud and happy and psychologically and morally comfortable about my parents' reading.

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I find the ideas of Catholicism incredibly rich and inspiring. Bogus, unfortunately, but nonetheless inspiring. I think they always provide an interesting nexus through which to look at the way we are.

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I don't think things happen for a reason, but I think it's perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully.

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I am a man of lost faiths.

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I used to believe in signs, omens, patterns, secret purpose, synchronicities.

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I still want magic, I find. The old fashioned kind. I don't believe in it, but I still have a hankering for it.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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