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Love of place is one of the characteristics I enjoy most about novelists.

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Control, like curiosity, can be an exterminator.

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I have written favourably in support of subsidy for the arts since the 1960s, and I continue to believe absolutely in subsidy, as I do in the BBC licence fee.

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It is very difficult for middle-aged, institutionalised males who have done so well out of subsidy - and, fair play, given much back - to realise that there is a time to be a well-heeled revolutionary.

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In an arts programme, my job was to go where the talent was. And the talent was in popular culture.

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Television, above all, is the place where people can see the world they live in, and if the world they live in is a world without the arts, so much the worse for television, and so much the worse for the viewers.

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I love writing, and I love making arts programmes.

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Autobiographical fiction is very tricky.

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A lot of the novels I admire are 'admirably provincial.'

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I actually admire some of the books by a lot of the writers who write magic realism very much, but it's not for me. It's not what I can do, but even if I could, I don't really want to try.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Journalist

Born: October 6th, 1939

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