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We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.

Why does the past seem so magical, so fraught, so luminous? At the time it was just, ugh, another boring bloody day. But, to look back on, it's a day full of miracles and light and extraordinary events. Why is this? What process do we apply to the past, to give it this vividness? I don't know.

I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.

It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.

We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us.

Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.

When I started writing, I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the more confused, and for an artist I think that is quite a good thing: you allow in more of your instinctual self; your dreams, fantasies and memories. It's richer, in a way.

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.

I read Nietzsche when I was a teenager and then I went back to reading him when I was in my thirties, and his voice spoke directly to me. Nietzsche is such a superb literary artist.

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