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" I like the fact George R. R. Martin took Shakespeare's political plays as material, but he also took on all sorts of other sensational stories and mingled them in together. "

Melvyn Bragg

Stories

Together

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Mongrel

Class

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Remember

You

" I actually admire some of the books by a lot of the writers who write magic realism very much, but it's not for me. It's not what I can do, but even if I could, I don't really want to try. "

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Admire

I Can

" I am 74 now. Looking back, I have a sense of not really being in control of my career. I just went where it took me. "

" I'm a Labour party supporter, but I'm also a democrat. "