"I think writers are very anxious."

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Government

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Thought

"I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually."

People

"But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed."

Woman

"That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque."

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"Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves."

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"I like poking my nose into other people's lives."

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"It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth."

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