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A novel is not a play. A novel takes one reader at a time into its confidence. It can be shockingly personal. Private, even.

~Howard Jacobson

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You don't divorce simply because your spouse has a number of qualities you dislike and on occasions makes your life uncomfortable. If you are reasonable, you view divorce as a measure of last resort. There are many steps you can take in the meantime. You might even call in a trained mediator.

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You can have your country and be pleased to welcome others to it. You can have your country and still enjoy living elsewhere.

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Everything is allowable in literature, but what is not allowable in criticism is objection on the grounds of probability.

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Not everyone is fortunate enough to earn their living playing. But what draws people to art and artists is a desire to enjoy the propinquity of play. For it is the very freedom of the imagination. And what else were we born to do, but imagine freely?

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Think of the aged and bed-ridden Matisse cutting out strips of coloured paper, much as a child might, and investing them with a more than mortal vitality... Those strips of paper resonate because they prove that our materials don't determine in advance the worth of what we make.

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Rereading one's own novels after many years is always a fraught business, but when a novel has fallen out of print - 'The Very Model of a Man' is the only novel of mine that has - and so crops up infrequently in conversations with readers or indeed with oneself, revisiting it can be perilous.

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Many a trivial novel has been written about an important subject, and many a profound one about nothing in particular.

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Literature more often tells the story of impulses we don't act on than of ones we do. I could joke about the Cain and Abel story with my brother without expecting him to be worried, though it's always possible he was more anxious than he let on.

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Our connection to the great myths of our natures is murky. A mother might see the Medea in herself without imagining she will ever do away with her children.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Novelist

Born: August 25th, 1942

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