"I loved the fact that I was suddenly no longer dependent on whether a store took out an ad in the right place, or on the word on the street."
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"In a novel, you can always go back and make it look like you knew what you were doing all along before the thing goes out and gets published."
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"I don't necessarily think stories have functions any more than diamonds have functions, or the sky has a function... Stories exist. They keep us sane, I think. We tell each other stories, we believe stories. I love watching the slow rise of the urban legend. They're the stories that we use to explain ourselves to ourselves."
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"There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art."
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"None of us know where our stories come from. That's why writers make fun of people who ask us where we get our ideas... because we don't know."
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"My parents would frisk me before family events, and find the book, and lock it in the car. And then be disappointed where, somewhere at the event, I would find a book and sit under a table where nobody could get me and go back into book land."
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"I was a book-y child. I was much more book-y than dark."
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"Everything in journalism is about the detail that makes the whole, the attempts to reproduce speech patterns while not actually quoting the whole thing the person said."
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"I'm probably slightly more famous than I've been comfortable with. Famous enough to have my phone calls returned is about as famous as I want to be."
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"I was bright, and I could use that as a weapon: words can wound, whatever those sticks and stones sayings claim about them never hurting, and I could use them if I had to."
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"If you read enough Lionel Fanthorpe, your brain starts to turn to jelly and just dribbles out of your ears."
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"There may be a parallel between woodcuts and radio; radio plays are a living art form everywhere except the USA."
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"I think radio plays are my favourite medium, as they make the listener work and create and contribute in a way that TV and film can never do, and they have an immediacy that written prose often lacks."
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"Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own."
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"If you go to space, you'll look down and see no national boundaries. You'll never see the gods people are killing each other over, but they're incredibly real."
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"According to my daughters, my most irritating habit is asking for cups of tea."
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"Imagine a mosaic picture of a house in the country: lots of red and blue and yellow and black and brown and white and a dozen different shades of green tiles which make a beautiful picture if you stand back far enough. All the little red squares are true - true things, true places, true feelings. But the red squares aren't the picture. All the rest of it is lies and stories, often within the same sentence."
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"It's one thing to want money, but if you find yourself choking on a coin as you wake, the money is slightly less desirable."
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"I realized the other day that about the only author I genuinely read for pure pleasure is one of the worst authors in the world, a guy called Harry Stephen Keeler, a long dead American mystery writer. He was probably the greatest bad writer America ever produced."
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"People can get involved in wonderfully creative ways that have nothing to do with you, but spark off things you begin with."
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