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I didn't go to university straight after school. I went at night.

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I'm not that well-versed in literary theory - I don't know what it is.

~Jim Crace

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I come from a working-class background where I was much more likely to read socialist books and leaflets than Bronte or Dickens - neither of whom I've yet read.

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I was brought up in a flat in North London - virtually the last building in London, because north of us was countryside all the way to the coast, and south of us was non-stop London for 20 miles.

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Even though my brother and I loved scrumping - we loved the act of climbing trees and grabbing fruit - there was always fear we would be caught. We feared we'd be imprisoned, sent to Australia.

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I've never finished anything by Dickens.

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I should have been kinder when I was younger.

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I am not - thank heavens - one of those 'driven' writers who spend a fortnight buckled with empty fright over an untouched page only to wake at two in the morning feverish with paragraphs.

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I'm a matter-of-fact, office-hours writer.

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Good old-fashioned, puritanical work guilt is, for me, a better colleague than any Muse. If I reach my weekly word target by Friday afternoon, then the weekend is guilt-free.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: March 1st, 1946

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