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I don't hold grudges.

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Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.

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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.

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Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.

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I don't really believe in evil at all.

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I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.

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My father's drinking was sometimes a problem. And a great deal went unspoken. He was not particularly acute or articulate about the emotions. But he was very affectionate towards me.

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I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.

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My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.

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A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: June 21st, 1948

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