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"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."
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"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."
"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."
"For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people."
"Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen."
"I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier."
"My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it."
"I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us."
"From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness."
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