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"I'm proud to be a writer. I'm doing the job all my heroes did."
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"A lot of people who read my novel 'Smog City' ask me why I never killed off either of the two main characters. To be honest, it's because I've given them life. Not literally of course, but since I spent so much time developing and creating my characters, they've ended up with complex personalities, in fact they're almost sentient in a way, and to write them off as dead would be like killing a close friend to me."
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"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."
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"There is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out."
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"Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts."
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"A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work."
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"But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?"
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"I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment."
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"I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer."
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"A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction."
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"The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to, surely one can only write the book that is there to be written."
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"No matter what the good boys tell you, criminality is not a level playing field."
Crime

"Writing is more about telling other peoples' stories than your own."
Storytelling

"He had become the sky around the sun " alive, but not really there."
Existentialism

"I'll be your friend until you find a better one."
Friendship

"Are there not times, Ridley, when you yourself wish only to hear the best in people " and not to be dragged downwards into the underworld we all regularly inhabit?"
Hope

"She is intent on pleasing the men that frighten her."
Conflict

"It's much harder to twist the charitable arm of a lottery winner compared to that of a man at his lowest ebb. It sounds like the wrong way round at first, but when you really put your nut to it, people are more frightened of losing the big shit than of having fuck all to begin with and losing a bit of that."
Society

"I have a very addictive personality. If it isn't women, it's money. If it isn't money, it's speeding. And if it isn't speeding, it's women. I also like expensive video consoles where I can punch, kick, screw, shoot and drive legally all night anywhere I fucking well want to."
Addiction

"I'm much more than a writer " I'm someone who puts different words together in an interesting way."
Writing

"Life isn't over until you're dead. Another ultra-positive, ultra-motivational tweet to improve your day. You're welcome."
Optimism
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