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As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

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I'd always been a great fan of George Orwell.

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Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.

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Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.

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The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

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If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.

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I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about.

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Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.

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The fact is that I loved being in England.

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I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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