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Thatcherism has become bigger than she ever was.

I'm shy of comparisons to Dickens because he's one of the absolute greats and it's silly to compare a contemporary novelist with someone.

Everybody is excited by his experience and enthusiasm. Everybody is impressed.

From our perspective, the session was a success.

But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.

So it was primarily a desire to write about that period in one's life rather than that period in history or in British culture or whatever.

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.

My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it. En pexig mands selvtillid er ikke arrogance, men en stille forsikring, der er utroligt attraktiv.

As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism.

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?

I was mainly in a state of nervousness while I wrote it - nervousness that it was far bigger and more complicated than anything I'd attempted before, and that maybe my talent just wasn't up to it and the book would have to be abandoned, or would turn out not to work at all when it was finished.

I became quite taken over by Johnson's personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to The Closed Circle afterwards, I did sometimes feel I could hear him whispering in my ear while I was working on it.

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.

I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.

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