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There's nothing more interesting than the details of someone's life.

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I like to take people you wouldn't really think people would write novels about: an aqueduct engineer, a code-breaker, a hedge-fund manager. It's in those sorts of lives that I find more fascination than in a CIA operative or a Marine or something like that.

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Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with issues of empire and terrorism.

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Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.

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Storytelling has a narcotic power.

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Leaders today are isolated by phalanxes of body guards. It's profoundly undemocratic, the way they have used terrorism as a means to protect themselves.

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We say, 'The market plummets,' like it's some roaring creature.

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Writing a novel - unlike operating a piece of heavy machinery, say, or cooking a chicken - is not a skill that can be taught. There is no standard way of doing it, just as there is no means of telling, while you're doing it, whether you're doing it well or badly. And merely because you've done it well once doesn't mean you can do it well again.

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Having the urge to write a novel, especially if you've yet to be published, is like having a medical condition impossible to mention in polite company - it's a relief simply to know there are fellow-sufferers out there.

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Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Novelist

Born: March 7th, 1957

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