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" I loathe crowds. I especially don't like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me. "

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" My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis. "

" My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot. "

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" Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room. "

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" My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read 'Boneland.' "

" My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing whatsoever. "

" As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it just wasn't there. "

" I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do. "

" My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical experience, and it may be a mystical experience, but I have learnt just to go with it. "

" I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story. "