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Cut your manuscript ruthlessly but never throw anything away: it's amazing how often a discarded scene or description, which wouldn't fit in one place, will work perfectly later.

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We live in an age of great jitteriness in the financial markets. And there's no doubt at all, I think, that the volume of computer-traded stocks has helped contribute to that.

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The financial markets tend to be just a backdrop for a novel, for a heist or something that isn't necessarily integral to it. On the whole, I don't think the financial world has been well served by novels.

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If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.

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It's easy enough to get into power. You can make promises and try to be all things to all people. But the moment you have to make decisions, you're going to annoy at least half of them. Whatever you do, in the end you're almost certain to be brought down by your own character traits.

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Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated.

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My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.

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It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.

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I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics - especially if you're there for a long time.

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I see myself as the literary equivalent of a skilled lathe-operator, or a basket-weaver; a potter, maybe: I make mildly diverting objects that people want to buy.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Novelist

Born: March 7th, 1957

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