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There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die.

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There's something very misleading about the literary culture that looks at writers in their 30s and calls them 'budding' or 'promising', when in fact they're peaking.

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I don't hang out with the glitteringly successful people; I hang out with people who've been friends for many years, and to some extent I feel my worldly success is a bit uncomfortable for them.

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I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on.

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I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

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I loved cowboy films and TV series, and I learned bits of English from them. My favorite was 'Laramie', with Robert Fuller and John Smith. I used to watch 'The Lone Ranger', which had been famous in Japan as well. I idolized these cowboys.

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Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel. With a novel, you can get right inside somebody's head.

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I think jogging is bad for your health. All that pressure on the knees and back cannot be good for you.

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What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.

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We always like to keep our children in a kind of bubble and censor the bad news about the world. We like to tell them the world is full of benevolent, nice people.

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Biography

Nationality: Japanese

Type: Author

Born: November 8th, 1954

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