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" As an Anglo-Indian kid in Bolton, I was basically in a minority of one. That was a source of misery, but at the same time, one of the effects of receiving the message that you don't belong to the club is that you watch the club with detachment. The fact that no one quite knew who I was was a major contributory factor in starting to write. "
You
Time
Starting
" Cheney, Rumsfeld - they were Shakespearean in their attitude of impunity. "
Attitude
Were
Rumsfeld
" Everyone is obsessed with air fresheners. We associate smell with disgust. But we're all locked into the body; we can't escape it. "
Smell
Everyone
Escape
" Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams. "
Dreams
Dream
Fairy
" For a long time, I'd wanted to write a book that I would be proud and happy and psychologically and morally comfortable about my parents' reading. "
Happy
Book
Reading
" For the minimum-wager with Caligulan needs, the glory days are soon over. "
Soon
Over
Needs
" I am a man of lost faiths. "
Man
Am
Faiths
" I don't think things happen for a reason, but I think it's perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully. "
Life
Things Happen
Think
" If being a werewolf is really a curse, you've got to treat it honorably. If werewolves are going to carry on, there has to be an incredibly powerful force. There is the business of the craving, the hunger for the kill. It has to be deeply pleasurable and more than an appetite for meat. There has to be a sensual dimension to it. "
Business
Hunger
Powerful
" If I'm going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction. "
More
Entertainment
Want
" I find the ideas of Catholicism incredibly rich and inspiring. Bogus, unfortunately, but nonetheless inspiring. I think they always provide an interesting nexus through which to look at the way we are. "
Think
Interesting
Look
" I haven't won any prizes or had any best sellers. "
Sellers
Prizes
Had
" I, made in England, felt excluded, miffed, resistant to the idea of even visiting India, a position of increasing absurdity as, one by one, backpacking friends returned from the place with the standard anecdotal combo of nirvanic epiphany and toilet horror. "
Place
Horror
India
" I'm constantly dogged with a feeling of fraudulence, so if somebody tells me they like what I've written, then I immediately begin to think it's rubbish. "
Me
Like
Feeling
" I'm not quite sure when I began to be troubled by the creeping sense of my own ludicrousness, but it persisted - and eventually grew into a fascination. I started writing about it. Thus, in His characteristically mysterious way, the Lord made clear His plans for me. "
Me
Own
My Own
" I'm not very good at story. In fact, compared to character and language, I barely care about story at all. "
Story
Language
Care
" I'm too conceited for therapy. "
Therapy
Too
Conceited
" I'm with Milton and the Rolling Stones: I don't find the Devil an unsympathetic character. But in any case, my fiction is populated as much by people who do good as it is by those who do bad. I'm interested in imaginatively accommodating as much of the human as possible, for which you need both moral extremes and everything in between. "
Devil
People
Character
" In a fit of pique, I said to my agent, 'I'm going to write something you can sell.' The idea was to write a straight page-turner, with no literary conceits. "
You
Sell
Said
" I read John Irving's novel 'The World According To Garp' when I was about 14 or 15. It was the first grown-up book that I had read. It is the story of a young man who grows up to be a novelist. I finished it, and I wanted to write a book that made the reader feel the way I felt at the end of that, which was sort of both bereft and elated. "
End
Story
Man
" I still want magic, I find. The old fashioned kind. I don't believe in it, but I still have a hankering for it. "
Kind
Magic
Old
" I used to believe in signs, omens, patterns, secret purpose, synchronicities. "
Purpose
Used
Signs
" I will waste an extraordinary amount of time, you know. And if it's not watching television, I'll be sitting staring out of the window. And yes, I know there's the idea of the artist, sitting there doing nothing while things are going on, but actually, no. It's vacant space. I'm thinking about the laundry. "
Window
Know
Space
" Life would be much easier if I just wrote the same book over and over again. But I'm not interested in doing that. "
Life
Book
Again
" My family is Anglo-Indian, and of the four children, I'm the only one who wasn't born in India. "
Only
Who
Family
" My parents believe in the happy endings to the stories of their children. "
Happy
Parents
Believe
" My position is that you've got to accommodate everything. I don't morally accommodate but imaginatively accommodate. "
Everything
You
Position
" Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. "
Much
Systems
Literature
" One of the things that seems absolutely clear to me about werewolves - with their canine makeup - is that they would be dogs, as it were. "
Things
Seems
Me
" There are, I'm depressed to say, many classics I have not yet read and will probably never get around to, though I will not stop short of hospitalizing myself in the attempt. "
Short
Will
Myself
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