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B is for bestseller.

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Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.

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Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.

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Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.

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I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people.

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As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

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At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.

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Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

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Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.

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Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: September 26th, 1962

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