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Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.

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To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock.

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What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible.

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I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and depth and flat and falling and rising was coming into being in my mind.

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In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety.

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In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence.

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Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.

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There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.

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When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

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Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: January 19th, 1946

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