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The drawings are terribly good.
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Too many new writers dress up old cliches.
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Cliches
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For me, imagination would always provide a means of escape.
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Imagination Always Me
Escape
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I have never met an author who did not read voraciously as a child.
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Author
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Clutter, either mental or physical, is the sign of a healthy curiosity.
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Clutter
Curiosity
Healthy
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Life is a very beautiful dream. I'm so glad I chose not to wake up from it just yet
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Dream
Beautiful
Wake Up
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[Believers] have joy and comfort-that joy that angels cannot give, and devils cannot take.
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Angel
Blessing
Christian
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The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator.
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Cleverness
Clockwork
Concerned
Crime
Plot
Queen
Investigator
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There's a melancholy sense of things lost in the shabbier British seaside towns; of comfortable failure and better times long gone.
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Melancholy
Towns
Long Gone
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As a child marooned in a post-war South London backwater with no ready cash and a bafflingly dysfunctional family, I had to glean my amusement wherever I could.
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Amusement
Cash
Post War
Dysfunctional
Wherever
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I've always loved what I'd term 'dark fiction' writers, everyone from J. G. Ballard to Mervyn Peake and Philip Pullman. I'm not sure it's a genre, but it's what I like best.
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Fiction Writers
Genre
Philip
Term
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I left school on a wet Thursday afternoon, found a room in a shared house in North London, and started my first job on the following Monday as a courier for an advertising agency.
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Advertising
Afternoon
Agency
Following
Monday
Thursday
Wet
Advertising Agency
First Job
Shared
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My father worked in a scientific lab where he designed and built glass instruments. He was regarded as brilliant at his job and once constructed a human brain in glass just to show off his skills.
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Brilliant
Human Brain
Instruments
Skills
Constructed
Designed
Glass
Lab
Regarded
Scientific
Show Off
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By the time I reached the sixth form at my local grammar school, my father would glower at me every time I passed him with a stack of books under my arm, warning me there was no money to go to university.
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Grammar
Grammar School
Warning
Time Money Me
Arm
Time Money Father
Sixth
By The Time
Passed
Reached
Stack
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I didn't bother with television myself because it consisted largely of windmills, puppets and pottery wheels, interspersed with elderly men smoking pipes while they discussed Harold Macmillan in Old Etonian accents.
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Accents
Bother
Elderly
Puppets
Smoking
Wheels
Discussed
Harold
Largely
Pipes
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It was true that the city could still throw shadows filled with mystifying figures from its past, whose grip on the present could be felt on certain strange days, when the streets were dark with rain and harmful ideas.
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Dark
Past
Rain
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I don't divide my reading into demographic categories, any more than I'd divide my friends into groups along ethnic or sexual lines. The thing I look for most is a sense of literary rawness - bareback fiction, if you will.
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Categories
Groups
Look Will More
Demographic
Divide
Ethnic
Literary
Sexual
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My father Bill had a problem with Christmas. Although he appears in old photographs to possess a whippy, muscular frame, he was actually a frail man and usually managed to cause some kind of drama just before the festivities began.
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Christmas
Frail
Old Photographs
Appears
Photographs
Muscular
Possess
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I consider myself a kind of a nerd, because when we go to the coffee shop in the mornings, we sit there in a very neat row with our laptops. It's just like being at work, but with coffee and panini. And, of course, you don't get paid.
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Coffee
Laptops
Neat
Mornings
Shop
Row
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I hate the endless admonishments of a nanny state that lives in fear of its lawyers. While colonies of dim-witted traffic wardens swarm about looking for minor parking infringements, nobody seems to notice that our very social fabric is falling apart.
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Fabric
Fall
Hate
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Reality TV has blown away the need for a roster of familiar faces in films. Plus, films became franchise and didn't need stars. But the real difference between stars and celebrities is that stars have training and talent, and celebrities just have exposure.
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Blown Away
Exposure
Faces
Familiar
Plus
Reality Tv
Celebrities
Franchise
Real Difference
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Kim Newman brings Dracula back home in the granddaddy of all vampire adventures. Anno Dracula couldn't be more fun if Bram Stoker had scripted it for Hammer. It's a beautifully constructed Gothic epic that knocks almost every other vampire novel out for the count.
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Home
Adventure
Fun
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My bedroom was filled with reading material: books salvaged from dustbins, books borrowed from friends, books with missing pages, books found in the street, abandoned, unreadable, torn, scribbled on, unloved, unwanted and dismissed. My bedroom was the Battersea Dogs' Home of books.
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Abandoned
Bedroom
Borrowed
Filled
Missing
Pages
Torn
Unloved
Dismissed
Dogs
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Broadly speaking, there are two approaches to crime: the realistically detailed police procedural, usually grim and downbeat, and the more left-field, joyous theatre of ideas in which past masters once specialised. Knowing that I would never be able to handle the former, I set about reviving the latter.
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Former
Grim
Handle
Joyous
Latter
Masters
Approaches
Detailed
Procedural
Realistically
Specialised
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When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle conceived Sherlock Holmes, why didn't he give the famous consulting detective a few more quirks: a wooden leg, say, and an Oedipus complex? Well, Holmes didn't need many physical tics or personality disorders; the very concept of a consulting detective was still fresh and original in 1887.
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Arthur
Conan
Consulting
Holmes
Concept
Detective
Disorders
Leg
Sherlock
Sherlock Holmes
Sir
Wooden
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