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I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories.

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History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.

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When I wrote about the French Revolution, I didn't choose to write about aristocrats; I chose characters who began their lives in provincial obscurity.

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As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

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I've got so many ideas, and sometimes the more exhausted my body gets, the more active my mind gets.

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I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel.

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Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.

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Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it.

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My first two novels were very black comedies.

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Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: July 6th, 1952

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