I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read … - Monica Ali

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The best ideas and the most useful and ground-breaking are often, though not always, in one sense, very simple ideas.

Monica Ali

I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I admire her great courage in leaving so much unsaid and asking the reader to really engage her brain.

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The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.

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If the culture is so all pervasive that you can’t think outside of it, how are you making genuine choices?

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I get really excited if I think I'm going to introduce somebody to a writer they haven't found before and I think they'll love. My favorite books to get as gifts are any that the giver is messianic about.

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People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.

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I guess there's a sort of cycle with writing books. There's all the researching and then the imagining and writing - which is the real job - and then there's always a period when the book comes out and you have to lift your head and venture out.

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I regret the way that America has elected to make films for its bluntest section of society and in ways that flatter them, and we have to recognize how much that is being done for money. We have to find another way of measuring ourselves. And film is one of the few ways that might be done.

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