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• ‟ It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.

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• ‟ One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.

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• ‟ I became a sceptic of one way of seeing the world. And I think it is what started me in my awareness that any worldview is superstitious.

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• ‟ I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

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• ‟ 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' had a formative effect on me. I think it's one of those works that if you encounter it very early you're doubly enchanted by the beauty of the language and the strangeness of the vision. It stays with you.

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