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As a woman, I'd be uneasy about being given the power to determine what is insulting to women in general.

Jonathan Lethem's 10th novel, 'The Blot,' is engaging, entertaining, and sharp for its first two-thirds. Then it goes to hell.

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What a good novelist does with a throwaway that serves no fictional purpose is throw it away.

Most books are three-thirds rubbish.

Reality doesn't have to be plausible. Reality can be as preposterous as it pleases.

Donald Trump wouldn't work on paper. Obnoxious, crass, boastful, and vulgar, with garish tastes and a Stepford wife - as a fictional character, he'd seem too crudely drawn. Even in a trashy airport thriller, readers wouldn't buy such a boor...

A Trump presidency feels as if we've crawled between the covers of a really crummy book.

I can't be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating us at our own game or in racking my brains over what could possibly constitute a contribution when...

We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans.

I'm not a religious person. Chances are that the universe neither treasures nor regrets us.

I am hopeful that the concept of 'cultural appropriation' is a passing fad: people with different backgrounds rubbing up against each other and exchanging ideas and practices is self-evidently one of the most productive, fascinating aspects of modern urban life.

When Truman Capote wrote from the perspective of condemned murderers from a lower economic class than his own, he had some gall. But writing fiction takes gall.

There was a point in the latter 1990s at which, suddenly, every sitcom and drama in sight had to have a gay or lesbian character or couple. That was good news as a voucher of the success of the gay...

Trump is not charismatic. He is artless and politically clumsy and wears his egotism on his sleeve.

Trump can't string a single grammatical sentence together, and at the podium, he is lumpen and awkward.

Novelists are too often assumed to write veiled autobiography.

We vainly fancy ourselves above the ugly informing and paranoia of the right-wing McCarthy era, but in the 21st century, the Left has fashioned a mirror image.

Overly vigorous investigations of ominously ill-defined 'bullying' can themselves constitute a form of bullying.

Hypersensitivity has become a weapon.

I was terrified of growing up to become the anti-me, maturing into a woman whom I would not recognise and who wouldn't recognise her younger self.

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