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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

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"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite."

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"As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too."

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"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."

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"Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book."

Hope

"As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates."

Time

"Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present."

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"I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing."

Influence

"If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us."

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"It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed."

Politics

"A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into."

Writing

"I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay."

People

"However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned."

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"I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there."

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