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I'm interested in taking hold of the dull truth narrative and finding inside it the transcendence and spirituality and hysteria normally associated with religion.

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Narrative is so rich; it's given up so much.

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I never think of the reader. I am curious about things; I need to find out, so off I go.

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The problems of the world are not going to be engaged with and solved in Faversham, they're going to be sorted out in cities like Birmingham.

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Retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product in almost every case.

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You can't sing baritone when you're a soprano.

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I'm not good at dialogue. I'm not good at holding a mirror up at a real world. I'm not good at believable characterisation.

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When I was a youngster, I was brought up in a very political background on an estate in north London.

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English politics is so much more concerned with the proprieties than with defending dogmas.

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Writing careers are short. For every 100 writers, 99 never get published. Of those who do, only one in every hundred gets a career out of it, so I count myself as immensely privileged.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: March 1st, 1946

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