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When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading.

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London is like no other city I know in its ability to become beautiful. You can suddenly turn a corner and there are odd moments - of light, of weather.

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I respond to the sound of London being spoken - to the sound of London.

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If people read 'Tomorrow' and feel that it is offering them some view of my own household, they would be very, very wrong.

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In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic.

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Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don't write down an elaborate plan. It's really done by feel. It's one area of my writing that I think I've got surer at as I've evolved.

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I'm not a writer who looks for the fantastic and the sensational. I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff.

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The pen is very quick for getting stuff from your brain to the page. I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on to the page.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: May 4th, 1949

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