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" I've never met anyone who is seriously bad. "

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" Jeremy Corbyn has proved popular with young voters in part because he has promised an end to austerity. "

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" It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years. "

" Typically, booksellers like to put things into neat little categories. "

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" The writing in those HBO dramas, like 'The Wire,' is as good as anything I've seen. "

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" I have the same interests as women. Well, apart from football and music, obviously. I've always had as many female friends as male ones. The novels I read as a young man were all by women writers, and when I started writing, I wanted to set my books inside the home. "

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" When most people come in from work, 95 percent of them reach for the remote control. Then they read before they go to sleep, to get off to sleep. They do that because reading feels like a duty, and TV feels like fun. "

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" Sometimes when people are attached to a project, they need persuading to stay attached, and then, in retrospect, they're not the right person. "