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I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden?

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The experienced writer says to the anguished novice: 'Just do it; get something, anything, on to the screen or page, just establish a flow of words, and criticise them later.' You give this advice but can't always take it.

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Fear of commitment lies behind the fear of writing.

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You can control and censor a child's reading, but you can't control her interpretations; no one can guess how a message that to adults seems banal or ridiculous or outmoded will alter itself and evolve inside the darkness of a child's heart.

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Like many people, I am addicted to the physical act of reading.

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Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear, you have to taste the madeleine, and while you are seemingly passive in your chair, you have to travel.

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But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.

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Novels teach you that actions have consequences. They help you grow up.

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There are plenty of books that tell you how to become a writer, but not one that suggests how, if you want a normal life, you might reverse the process.

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Writers do not want to think they are less rational than other people, and at the mercy of compulsions, but in their hearts they know they are like those people who are taken for walks by their dogs, towed through hedges and ditches by an untrained sub-human energy.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: July 6th, 1952

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