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" When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty. "

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" In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. "

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Beginning

" The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. "

" I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons. "

" I've been trying to... Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity. "

" If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. "

" I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather - you just have to get on with it. "

" This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. "

" I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? "

" As a child, I was an active Christian. I used to love the school choir and remember the carol service as always such an emotional thing. "

" I don't think anybody would argue now that the Internet isn't becoming a major factor in our lives. However, it's very new to us. Newsreaders still feel it is worth a special and rather worrying mention if, for instance, a crime was planned by people 'over the Internet.' "

" I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it. "

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" The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. "

" Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet. "

" I think the idea of art kills creativity. "

" The usual method of finding a little dongly thing that actually matches a gizmo I want to use is to go and buy another one, at a price that can physically drive the air from your body. "

" If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves. "

" Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. "

" He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. "

" Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. "

" I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that's it. The lifestyle doesn't change. "

" In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground. "

" I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. "

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Always

" You live and learn. At any rate, you live. "

" For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. "

" The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. "

" Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. "

" Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do. "

" There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.' "

" We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often 'crash' when we tried to use them. "

" Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that's what we're used to. So people complain that there's a lot of rubbish online, or that it's dominated by Americans, or that you can't necessarily trust what you read on the Web. "