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I liked journalism and thought it was important, certainly more important than fiction. I'd probably still be doing it if I hadn't been elbowed out.

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After 25 years sitting on my own in a room, I was looking for a more companionable job and wanted to work more collaboratively. I've also been very lucky in my career, with good advances and multibook deals. But there is some extent to which I worried that I was writing for the contract and not for the impulse of the thing itself.

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My dad didn't have a formal education, but he had a wonderful vocabulary. So in 'Harvest,' I wanted my main character to be an innately intelligent man who would have the vocabulary to say whatever he wanted in the same way as lots of working-class people can.

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Everyone says I should write a natural history or landscape book because if I have an area of amateur expertise, it is in those things.

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The western view of Christ is usually of a stainless being with fair hair who appears to have come from Oslo.

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Writers who want to interfere with adaptations of their work are basically undemocratic. The book still stands as an entity on its own.

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Almost everyone who's been to primary school in Britain has had towels put on their heads to play the shepherds in the nativity play.

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I'm not going to write any more novels. I don't want to end up being one of these angry, bitter writers moaning that only three people are reading him. I don't want that.

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When people asked me what I did, I'd say, 'I work in publishing', and when they then say, 'What side of it?', I say, 'Supply' - no doubt leaving them to think I drive the books around in a van and deliver them.

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There is no comparison. The American landscape is so much more dangerous. They have real snakes, mountain lions, bears; we only have adders, and they're more frightened of us than we are of them.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: March 1st, 1946

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