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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

Stephen Fry

Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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I shouldn’t be saying this – high treason, really – but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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I’ve always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden’s animations.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
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You don’t sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn’t work like that.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it’ll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
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Personally, I’d never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
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To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
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Having been an actor and a writer for so long – 20 years or so – I felt that it would be daft to go to one’s grave without having directed. It’s a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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