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• ‟ Very few stories embody a human truth so definitively that we cannot think of the truth without remembering the story and cannot imagine how people ever got by without it.

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• ‟ I think throughout the 20th century, for some reason, serious writers increasingly had contempt for the average reader. You can really see this in the letters of such people as Joyce and Virginia Woolf.

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• ‟ Of course it's fun writing about an egomaniac, but I know there are going to be reviewers who've never met me, who don't know anything about me, who are going to say this is autobiography: he's just changed the names of a few people, and the rest is totally as it was.

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• ‟ I never, ever want to be in a position where people are sitting round a table, saying, 'We've got this book. I don't really get it, but we paid for it, so we've got to sell it.' I'm not Tony Parsons; that's not right for me.

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• ‟ I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

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• ‟ Art is head space that is very exclusive: it shuts people out; other people cease to exist.

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• ‟ I get increasingly respectful of people who have faith and increasingly creeped out by them.

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• ‟ All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

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• ‟ So many books that have Christian characters but are written by atheists mercilessly pillory and mock and question the motives of people with faith. I'm past all that.

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