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From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

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I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a roller coaster ride.

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I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.

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I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.

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I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.

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I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.

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I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.

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I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

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I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.

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I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: September 26th, 1962

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