"I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face."
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"I abhor nothing more than bumping into someone I know on the Tube."
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"If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s."
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"It's worth turning up to an awards gig if you know you've won one but, since you never do know, it's not worth it."
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"After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo."
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"My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on."
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"Every generation of children has its private hero."
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"Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind."
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"It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket."
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"Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not."
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"Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world."
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"The best way to prepare for a night out with a Shakespearean tragedy is to do a bit of reading up in the afternoon, eat a light supper - perhaps Welsh rarebit - and then arrive early to do some stretching exercises in the foyer before curtain-up."
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"Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners."
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