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The world is crawling with authors touring now. They’re like performance artists.

Kazuo Ishiguro

As with a wound on one’s own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things.
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Body Development Disturb Intimacy Possible Wound
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.
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Memories Memory Quite Writing
And I’m a Hailsham student – which is enough by itself sometimes to get people’s backs up.
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Enough Myself People Student Time
All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
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Children Growth Trauma
The Booker triumph of Graham Swift’s moving, effortlessly profound Last Orders is a vindication of the quiet, much-misunderstood path this fine writer chose to take after the brilliance of Waterland more than ten years ago.
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Brilliant Effort Move Quiet Understand
Because maybe, in a way, we didn’t leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and no matter how much we despised ourselves for it–unable quite to let each other go.
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Fear Leaving Ourselves Philosophy Quite Stay
Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?
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Inspirational Motivational Time Wonderful Yourself
I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can’t and play to the strengths of the novel. With a novel you can get right inside somebody’s head.
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Fiction Head Movie Novel Thinking Yourself
You have to accept that sometimes that’s how things happen in this world. People’s opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.
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Acceptance Growth People Process World
You’re always in a rush, or else you’re too exhausted to have a proper conversation. Soon enough, the long hours, the traveling, the broken sleep have all crept into your being and become part of you, so everyone can see it, in your posture, your gaze, the way you move and talk.
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Break Conversation Move Proper Sleep Talk Travel
My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation.
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Friendship Generation Hero Myself Writing
The world is crawling with authors touring now. They’re like performance artists.
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Artist Author Performance World
I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way – one solid scene doesn’t have to fall on another solid scene, you can just have a fragment that then dovetails into another one that took place 30 years apart from it.
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Fact Fragment Memories Place Time Work Writing
Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.
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Adult Childhood Deep Logic Motivational World
Its was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one’s development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one’s ability and beyond, so that thereafter one has a new standard by which to judge oneself.
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Ability Challenge Development Judgement Limitation Oneself
I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they’d once belonged to the sea.
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Book Myself Old Page Sea Thinking

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