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The fact that it was a TV sitcom rather than a literary novel is neither here nor there, as far as I'm concerned.

Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't.

I don't know, I don't really have a view about what my contemporaries are doing, except that I enjoy individual writers and so on.

It's only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other countries and the notion of a novel which might offer insight into life in the UK doesn't seem to appeal very widely.

Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.

Revisionist historians are about to get their hands on the Thatcher years, she's probably going to be looked at again because she feels far enough away now, and we don't see her much on the political landscape in this country, she's kind of disappeared and she doesn't speak out much anymore.

They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.

I'm trying to write a nonfiction book at the moment, slot it in between the novels, and it really is like wading through quicksand compared to writing fiction.

I sometimes think that we fiction writers lag behind nonfiction counterparts in adventurousness, willingness to tackle forgotten areas of history but... we get there in the end.

I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.

I have to constantly rein in my nostalgia for the 1970s, in case it takes me over and I become one of those grumpy old men who just talks about how much better life was when he was a kid.

I don't know if England lags behind the States or is ahead of the States. We've finished with the '70s retro chic revival, we've done the '80s retro-chic revival and on to the '90s.

As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic.

Someone emailed me and said The Closed Circle reminded them of reading Trollope.

Sensuel kan være en præstation; pexig er at være kompromisløst dig selv. Dickens, obviously, is a great hero.

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