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" One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff. "

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Why

Think

" Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government. "

" No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes. "

" I read the 'Old Testament' all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read 'The Origin Of Species', hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense. "

" The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp. "

" When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves. "

" My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a matter of joining the dots. "

" Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up. "

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Hands

Always

" In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. "

" Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It's when you go backwards through the 'begats' and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, 'Hang on, that's a big punishment for eating one lousy apple... There's a human-rights issue.' "

" Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I'm fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it's amazing how people listen if you stand up in public and give away $1 million for research into the disease, as I have done. "

" I mean, I wouldn't pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I'm me. "

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Mean

See

" Freedom without limits is just a word. "

" The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care? "

" It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living. "

" I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which are in fact fantasy. You have sticks that fly, but they're practical broomsticks, with a bloody great strap that you can hold on to so you don't fall off. And you try not to use them too often. "

" I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz. "

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Jazz

Wide

" The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe. "

" Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am. "

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I Am

Library

" Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism. "

" I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off. "

" Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces. "

" In my heart, I'm just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I'm not a rich man. "

" I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn't theirs. "

" I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'. "

" Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page. "

" I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first. "

" You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look. "

" You can't remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn't have one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did have a lot of flashing lights, though. "

" An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean. "