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It's strange; when I was younger and people would ask, 'Where are you from?', I'd say, 'West Africa', which was odd because I'm obviously not African, but it was my home.

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In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

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To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.

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I don't think they'll ever make a retro Bond.

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There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.

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In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.

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Even though I've been an avid consumer of contemporary music since my early teens, the world of rock music has always been at something of a distance - I listen to it, read about it, I talk about it, but I've had little or no contact with its denizens.

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Do we change every time we have a new encounter? Are we endlessly mutable? I think these are fascinating questions: it's a rich vein to tap, and I don't think I have exhausted it fully yet.

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With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very best actor in the world is crude by comparison with what you can do in a written paragraph.

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Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even get close.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Novelist

Born: March 7th, 1952

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