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I always save a huge book for a flight, because then you read it at both airports and on the plane and by the time you get home you're a quarter of the way through and it doesn't feel so unmanageable any more.

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Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book when I was growing up, for a long time, was 'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson, which I must have read about a dozen times when I was a teenager.

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I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.

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I don't have a day job, so I read any time of day.

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The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn't funny on some level is quite hard.

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There's never a bad time to put earplugs in. They're the kind of thing you can reject as a bit lame, but somebody told me to do start wearing earplugs and it turned out to be great advice.

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I'm reasonably good at talking onstage, but actually holding court in a pub is all to do with power dynamics which I don't think has anything to do with fiction.

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I'm very finicky about when I'm in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do anything.

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I would love to learn how to air kiss non-awkwardly.

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I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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