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" It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction. "

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" Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on a national or cultural level. "

" Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced. "

" I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome. "

" Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience. "

" I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave. "

" When I talk about my artist parents, people imagine a bohemian environment and think, 'Aha, so that's where he gets it from!' But we were as white, straight, and middle-class as the next family on our white, straight, middle-class housing estate. "

" Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can't get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon. "

" I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can. "

" I think we think in terms of stories. "

" There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier. "

" A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points. "

" You can't be a part-time Richard Dawkins. "

" In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that shows no sign of fading. Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Lemony Snicket are only three of the best known among a good number of equals. "

" My books are anti-absolutist and deeply distrustful of any religious stance that precludes the validity of any other. "

" Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretation for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable. "

" I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents. "

" Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again. "

" I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work. "

" I don't have problems starting writing. I have problems stopping. I'm one of the last dads to arrive at school to collect the kids, because I want to get this paragraph just right. "

" I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment. "

" Japanese food makes me feel particularly good. "

" I had a happy childhood. "

Happy Childhood

" People like to say that East Asians in general, and Japanese in particular, are not very expressive: there's that term 'inscrutable.' But often, Europeans just don't get the Asian codes. Believe me, the message is being expressed OK. "

" I'm not a great deep political thinker. "

" Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day. "

" When you're out of your own cultural context you have conversations with yourself that you just don't have at any other point in your life. When you're in a hotel room on the border between India and Nepal you can really discover things about yourself. "

" I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going. "