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The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

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The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well.

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A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.

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Lives don't divide up into chapters. People don't just talk, while nothing's going on in their head, and then respond. You know, none of these things actually happen.

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People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.

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Continuous present is all we have, and stream of consciousness - which in a novel is arguably just as artificial as the stilted dialogue that you get in most conventional novels. They're all stratagems to try to get closer to the texture of lived life.

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I'm very happy for whatever plaudits might come the way of my work, but I never ever sit down to write x with y in view - whether it's a reader, a prize or a sale.

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I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that.

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I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest common denominator. In terms of evolutionary psychology, the crowd is very close to a herd of stampeding wildebeest.

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Once the working classes were in chains, now they're in chain restaurants.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: September 26th, 1961

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