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I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope with being stationary.

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Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.

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All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are some who demand of themselves a 'rate of production,' for whom it's a matter of pride to complete, say, a book every year.

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I do my thinking while I walk. It just loosens up the mind in the way that you don't get when you are sitting at a desk.

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There is a certain inescapable attachment. If you are born somewhere and circumstances don't take you away from it, then you grow up and remain within it.

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Of course there are times when I hate London, but equally there are times when I can walk 'round a corner and I really feel that this is my place.

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I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it.

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The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.

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I tend to begin with what you might call the very small world of personal life. But I am certainly interested in how that small, intimate world connects or doesn't connect with a larger world.

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As a novelist, I suppose I can say that I'm highly articulate. But I know, as a person, in other ways, I'm not always articulate. I think we are all, from time to time, inarticulate, at some level, about some things.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: May 4th, 1949

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