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How clear can I put this? I am not denying female oppression; I am trying to stop it by calling for a more fluid masculinity.

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Robots are great. I am saying that now so that when a future civilization of robots takes us captive, they will search through the 'Guardian' web archive and realise I said, 'Robots are great,' and then they'll choose to save me.

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Teenagers are in some ways the best readers because their imaginations haven't been narrowed down by boring things like jobs and the realities of money and capitalism.

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There is certainly no one 'type' of writer who deliberately draws on Shakespeare. In fact, there's a strong argument that everyone writing in the English language is influenced by Shakespeare because, to a considerable degree, he shaped that language.

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You have to be good. And keep getting better. For every writer taken on, another is dropped. A paradox: you have to rise to stay level.

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The aim of any writer, even a fantasy writer, is the pursuit of truth.

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Beauty breeds beauty; truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.

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I have never felt oppressed by women or that feminism is a problem. I do think boys find it hard to like things seen as feminine. I want my son not to feel self-conscious he likes ballet and my daughter to carry on playing Han Solo; that's all.

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I've always thought feminism had a lot to say about both genders, as it is hard to talk about one without the other. I think men and women alike would benefit from men having a more fluid idea of what being a man is.

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It took me at least all my 20s and some of my 30s to get the confidence to realise I could just write about what I wanted to write about without having to pass a test or look super clever.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Novelist

Born: July 3rd, 1975

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