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You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.

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It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.

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What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.

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I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'

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I always used to deny this, but I guess what I'm really saying is that I was writing to shock... And I dug deep and dredged up all kinds of vile things which fascinated me at the time.

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Not being boring is quite a challenge.

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What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?

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I'm quite good at not writing.

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Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater.

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I often don't read reviews.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: June 21st, 1948

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