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"Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form."
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"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after."

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"I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again."


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"You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that."


"I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style."


"Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good."


"I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing."


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