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

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" 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. "

" For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed. "

" False modesty can be worse than arrogance. "

" 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. "

" The art of the novelist is not unrelated to the illness of multiple personality disorder. It's a much milder form. But the better the book, the nearer to the padded cell you are. "

" Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers, whereas a film's final cut vaporizes every other way it might have been made. "

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

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

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

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

" I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears. "

" 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. "

" I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers. "

" I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.' "

" Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy! "

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

" I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels. "

" I think we think in terms of stories. "

" I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them. "

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

" When I was about 14, in about 1984, I decided to become a great poet. Faber & Faber was going to publish me, and when Ted Hughes read my first anthology he would invite me to Yorkshire for meat pies and mentorship. "

" I had a happy childhood. "

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" Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale. "

" Writers are so used to books being optioned and then the movie never happens. "

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

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

" Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting. "