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I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
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I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.
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When you're out of your own cultural context you have conversations with yourself that you just don't have at any other point in your life. When you're in a hotel room on the border between India and Nepal you can really discover things about yourself.
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I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.
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For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.