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The market, as we're all painfully aware in the aftermath of the banking crisis, can be an idiot. It has no perception of right or wrong, or even sensible or insane. It sees profit.

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We lose stories every day because they drift out of use and into the vast limbo of in-copyright, out-of-print books whose ownership is unclear.

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We need to differentiate between commercial piracy - where criminal organisations produce illicit DVDs on a huge scale - and domestic, unauthorised filesharing, which may or may not be detrimental to overall sales.

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I'm usually reading too many books - in fact, I'm usually reading enough books that if the stack fell on me, I'd be injured.

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I work in our living room, a strange room in a strange, topsy-turvy house. I work underneath this enormous bookshelf.

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When the time comes to work, I work.

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I used desperately to want to be a brooding hero from literature, but I'm optimistic, healthy and fair-haired.

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My books are written from the heart, to entertain: they're books I would like to read. Because of that, when I meet people who like them, we have so much to talk about!

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In a social context, digital technology introduces you to neighbours of the mind - people who are separated by distance, but close to you in thought and interest.

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It's true that interacting through text means no eyelines, no facial expressions, no tone of voice. That can be an advantage, helping us to consider content rather than eloquence, import rather than source.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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