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Date of birth: 17 March 1933
Date of death: Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin: Egypt
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" Affinities and addictions change over time, too - you can fall out with a particular writer, and fall in with a new discovery. "

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" After all, we are all of us driven by work - it occupies our days and directs our lives. "

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" All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself. "

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" And there was Alice in Wonderland. I was a child who was absolutely steeped in Alice. I read Alice to this day. "

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" Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story. "

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" Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country. "

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" Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present. "

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" Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going. "

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" Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are. "

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" I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not. "

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" I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children. "

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" I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements. "

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" I didn't write anything until I was well over 30. "

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" I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation. "

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" I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years. "

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