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It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.

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I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.

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I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.

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As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be.

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I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.

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Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.

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It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're responsible. But the various sides of the debate have now become so tribal that it's no longer a matter of changing our views as more information comes in.

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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.

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True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

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If I could write the perfect novella I would die happy.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: June 21st, 1948

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