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I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people.

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I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death!

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All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.

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I'm a complete democrat in terms of who buys my books.

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Paris is certainly one of the most boastful of cities, and you could argue that it has had a lot to boast about: at various times the European centre of power, of civilisation, of the arts, and (self-advertisingly, at least) of love.

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Iconic Paris tells us: here are our three-star attractions, go thou and marvel. And so we gaze obediently at what we are told to gaze at, without exactly asking why.

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The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.

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Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.

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Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, the truest lines or the flashiest ones?

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: January 19th, 1946

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