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Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.

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Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.

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When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author.

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When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral vision of my memories. She is off to one side, always off to one side, with a book, with a scheme or a project or an enterprise.

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It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for.

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Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt for that. One flaw: sometimes, early on, she would tell me things designed to make me think less of my mother, and I would wave her away, saying, 'Jane, this just backfires and makes me think less of you.'

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People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.

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I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write.

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Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.

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Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, 'While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, it's a funny thing, but I'm an exception to that rule.'

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: August 25th, 1949

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