You learn a lot, writing fiction.

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I rather like getting away from fiction.

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I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.

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I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements.

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We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.

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Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.

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I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.

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We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.

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Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country.

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We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible.

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