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Watching an adaptation of your novel can be a violent experience: seeing your old jokes suddenly thrust at you can be alarming. But I started to enjoy 'Money' very quickly, and then I relaxed.

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My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.'

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I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time for my second first novel.

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Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a good evocation of writer's block.

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The literary interview won't tell you what a writer is like. Far more compellingly to some, it will tell you what a writer is like to interview.

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If every inhabitant of a liberal democracy believes in liberal democracy, then it doesn't matter what creed or colour they are.

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Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.

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Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years.

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All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say.

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Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: August 25th, 1949

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