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If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.

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Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian.

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In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom.

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As a single parent, I had become tyrannical in order to survive, and anything I couldn't control caused me enormous anxiety. As a naturally untidy, disorganised man who never made lists or kept receipts, morphing into someone who could take care of a toddler on his own may have caused me to overcompensate a little.

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I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.

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When you give something up, you need to fill the space where it used to be, and you understand the landscape in yourself a bit more.

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Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being taken away from me by death, or simply by getting lost from each other in the world, it makes me value them much more now.

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I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.

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Both my parents were very supportive of me in whatever I wanted to do.

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When I'm doing something, I do work hard at it.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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