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I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.

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Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.

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World makers, social network makers, ask one question first: 'How can I do it?'

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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.

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If you asked me if I wanted more joyful experiences in my life, I wouldn't be at all sure I did, exactly because it proves such a difficult emotion to manage.

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English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.

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People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.

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All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.

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I noticed in America that if you write a book of any kind, you're made to be the representative of all the issues that might surround it.

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There is a kind of desperate need for somebody to tell everyone what to do, which I find really peculiar in America. And then when you tell them, they're not interested, because it's also a country where everybody's opinion is their opinion, and they really don't give a damn what you think. So it's a very odd experience.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Novelist

Born: October 25th, 1975

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