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I started doing pot jokes, and I noticed that audiences invariably love pot jokes. Even people who don't smoke pot think it's a funny subject.

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John Boyne

. . . Nine-year-old boys usually turn ten at some point. It's the nineteen-year-olds who have difficulty turning twenty.

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There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can't you? It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life trying to escape it.

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War today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept.

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I was dropped by my publisher after my first two books. But I always believed in myself.

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I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see hundreds of titles which in my memory seem merely mediocre or second-rate. Only occasionally does a novel appear for which I feel a lasting passion, a book that I think could in time become a classic.

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It's not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was a good environment for an aspiring writer, with lots of events and authors appearing.

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