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There's an overwhelming sense of paranoia in the suburbs. People there seem so much more paranoid to me than people in the city about their kids being kidnapped or their parties being raided or their drinks being spiked. There's a kind of hysteria about that.

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When I was at university, there was such a strong delineation between city kids and those who had grown up the suburbs. City kids were so at home in the world, in a way that suburban kids take years to catch up, if indeed they ever can.

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I think most people struggle over a matter of years to find a satisfying way to live.

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I loved horses and horse books as a child.

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I'd like to think life has improved since 1850, despite the long hours we all seem to spend slaving over hot computers, but the psychological journeys remain the same - the search for love, identity, a meaningful place in the world.

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Although I've lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner's passion for all the details of English history and rural life.

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My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.

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Life doesn't go on forever, and you don't want to drop dead without ever having done what you wanted to do.

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One of the more interesting things I've learnt since becoming a writer is that if you like the book, you'll generally like the person. It doesn't always work in reverse - there are huge numbers of lovely people out there writing not very good books.

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When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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