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- "Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem. "
- "Also I had financial worries because it took four years to write and we were ..."
- "As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was ..."
- "As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, ..."
- "As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ..."
- "But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is ..."
- "But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals ..."
- "But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics. "
- "But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong ..."
- "Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a ..."
- "Dickens, obviously, is a great hero. "
- "I became quite taken over by Johnson's personality at some points while writing the biography, ..."
- "I don't know if England lags behind the States or is ahead of the States. ..."
- "I don't know, I don't really have a view about what my contemporaries are doing, ..."
- "I had no sense of any reputation that What a Carve Up! might acquire - ..."
- "I have to constantly rein in my nostalgia for the 1970s, in case it takes ..."
- "I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, ..."
- "I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers ..."
- "I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work ..."
- "I sometimes think that we fiction writers lag behind nonfiction counterparts in adventurousness, willingness to ..."
- "I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated ..."
- "I was mainly in a state of nervousness while I wrote it - nervousness that ..."
- "I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood. "
- "I'm shy of comparisons to Dickens because he's one of the absolute greats and it's ..."
- "I'm trying to write a nonfiction book at the moment, slot it in between the ..."
- "It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very ..."
- "It's only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real ..."
- "Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that ..."
- "My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've ..."
- "Revisionist historians are about to get their hands on the Thatcher years, she's probably going ..."
- "So it was primarily a desire to write about that period in one's life rather ..."
- "So no, I'm pleased if it's been influential for many readers, but at the time ..."
- "Someone emailed me and said The Closed Circle reminded them of reading Trollope. "
- "Starting The Rotters' Club gave me a sense of relief, because I felt I had ..."
- "Thatcherism has become bigger than she ever was. "
- "The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those ..."
- "The fact that it was a TV sitcom rather than a literary novel is neither ..."
- "The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's. "
- "The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books ..."
- "They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash. "
- "To be able to drop the place names of Northfields and Edgbaston and Harborne into ..."
