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It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.

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First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot is simply a function of what these people might do or be. Everything has to flow from their personalities; otherwise it will not be emotionally engaging, or plausible.

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My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.

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One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective on the present.

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Within reason, I can write what I like and spend as long doing it as is necessary. That is a luxury beyond price.

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I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.

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History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

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The financial world is at the cutting edge of high technology.

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I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

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Social mores change all the time. In the mid-1970s, it would've been astonishing, say, to see two men holding hands in the streets. And the attitude to having a fling with a girl, or whatever, was quite different then.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Novelist

Born: March 7th, 1957

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