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The more you pander to what is, presumably, the taste of young people, the more you corrupt.

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Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives.

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'The Da Vinci Code' was pretty awful. A good idea disappointingly handled.

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I think we all fear appearing foolish in public. We don't want to be laughed at.

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Hugh Grant will always be associated with his scandal, and so will Max Mosley.

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Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights.

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I always write about what interests me.

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I very much like writing about homosexual relations. I don't quite know why. Perhaps it's because I feel there's still so much to be said about them.

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'The Chimney Sweeper's Boy' began differently from any previous book I'd written. It actually derives from a story a friend - the novel's dedicatee, Patrick Maher - told me.

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I'm concerned with the lost, the lonely, the shy. I think shyness is in some ways more widespread now than formerly. I used to be shy myself. Of course, you can't be me now and remain shy, but I remember very well what it felt like.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: February 17th, 1930

Died: May 2nd, 2015

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