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Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.

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What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.

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I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.

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London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems; we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities; politics were fantastically polarized between left and right.

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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

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You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.

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I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.

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I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.

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When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: June 21st, 1948

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