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I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.

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Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you.

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That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain - they cannot be otherwise.

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I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.

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When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.

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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.

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It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'

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I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.

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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Novelist

Born: October 25th, 1975

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