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"I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers."
"I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know."
"I love reading I know it's very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it."
"I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out."
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"Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves."
"If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance."
"The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them."
"At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks."
"If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up."
"I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad."
"No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own."
"I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away."
"For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people."
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