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I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.

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I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a living form.

The éminence cerise, the bolster behind the throne.

Things are only boring if you are boring.

Wealth is a form of power in our society. With great power comes great responsibility. If you have too much wealth, ipso facto, you have too much power - therefore you have too much responsibility - and you're a kind of dictator.

So I was smacked up on the Prime Minister's jet – big deal.

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