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Narrative is so rich; it's given up so much.

I never think of the reader. I am curious about things; I need to find out, so off I go.

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The problems of the world are not going to be engaged with and solved in Faversham, they're going to be sorted out in cities like Birmingham.

Retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product in almost every case.

Retiring from writing is not to retire from life.

You can't sing baritone when you're a soprano.

I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes.

I'm not good at dialogue. I'm not good at holding a mirror up at a real world. I'm not good at believable characterisation.

When I was a youngster, I was brought up in a very political background on an estate in north London.

English politics is so much more concerned with the proprieties than with defending dogmas.

Writing careers are short. For every 100 writers, 99 never get published. Of those who do, only one in every hundred gets a career out of it, so I count myself as immensely privileged.

I liked journalism and thought it was important, certainly more important than fiction. I'd probably still be doing it if I hadn't been elbowed out.

After 25 years sitting on my own in a room, I was looking for a more companionable job and wanted to work more collaboratively. I've also been very lucky in my career, with good advances and multibook deals. But there...

My dad didn't have a formal education, but he had a wonderful vocabulary. So in 'Harvest,' I wanted my main character to be an innately intelligent man who would have the vocabulary to say whatever he wanted in the same...

Everyone says I should write a natural history or landscape book because if I have an area of amateur expertise, it is in those things.

The western view of Christ is usually of a stainless being with fair hair who appears to have come from Oslo.

Writers who want to interfere with adaptations of their work are basically undemocratic. The book still stands as an entity on its own.

Almost everyone who's been to primary school in Britain has had towels put on their heads to play the shepherds in the nativity play.

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