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As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.

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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.

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My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.

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Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.

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Young people understand the world. They should be listened to on matters of politics and world organization. But they know nothing of their own lives.

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The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.

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You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.

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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

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People with children will know this: when the childcare is over, it's over on the dot. You immediately have to go into child mode; there's no down time.

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My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Novelist

Born: October 25th, 1975

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