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I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware that somebody was writing the book I was reading - these wonderful parenthetical asides to the reader.

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I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist - a wonderful thing for a writer.

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I wish being a beekeeper, which I am, gave you a free pass on the carbon footprint, but it doesn't.

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One thing that I get from a lot of people with 'American Gods' is people saying that they would love some kind of glossary with a list of all the Gods and who they are, so that they can look them up.

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I'm English, and 'Doctor Who' was this thing that I've been watching since I was three.

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When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced you, and you reach the ladle of your imagination into this bubbling stew pot of all of this stuff, and you pour it out. And that's where you start from.

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What I'd love to do is every now and then go, 'Oh my God, I've got this amazing idea for 'Doctor Who.'

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I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good thing had been lost. You were getting books that were the equivalent of absolutely beautifully prepared dishes of food that didn't taste like anything much.

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My theory on genre is that while there are people out there who believe that genre tells people what to read, actually I believe that genre exists as a marketing tool to tell you what to avoid.

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I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: November 10th, 1960

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