"I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements."

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"I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements."

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"I rather like getting away from fiction."

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"It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it."

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"I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not."

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