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A planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever.

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For many weeks after [my wife] died, I could not get used to the feeling of coldness and lifelessness on her side of the bed - and it was even worse when they took the body away and buried her.

Bed, Coldness, Feelings, Lifelessness, Side, Wife
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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.

Book, Books, Keeping, Stories, Trouble, Writing

But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.

Accidental, Attempting, Choices, Control, Individual, Individuals

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.

Britain, Contemporary, Fascinating, Littles, Places

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

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

Idea, Ideas, Narrative, Readers, Space, Speculative
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