'Crime fiction, I learned, was a broad church. If anyone was guilty of making a miscalculation about what it should include, it was me. '

Crime fiction, I learned, was a broad church. If anyone was guilty of making a miscalculation about what it should, or shouldn't, include, it was me.

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'There was always more to marvel at. The creation of emotion. The uncanny beauty of a phrase upon the page. '

There was always more to marvel at. The creation of emotion. The uncanny beauty of a phrase upon the page. The places you went that you might never have expected to go.

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'In my role as Royal Literary Fund fellow, I again find myself an outsider; inhabiting an interesting hinterland as neither student nor staff. '

In my role as Royal Literary Fund fellow, I again find myself an outsider; inhabiting an interesting hinterland as neither student nor staff. Not privy to, or affected by, the shifting of gears within the University machinery.

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'The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan became the first book I had ever read that put my life on the page.'

I've written elsewhere about the complete absence of any Asian girls in anything I read until I was an adult. The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan became the first book I had ever read that put my life on the page.

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'No advice has ever influenced my writing a fraction as much as an anecdote I almost certainly have got wrong, and that I heard some time I don't remember.'

No advice has ever influenced my writing a fraction as much as an anecdote I almost certainly have got wrong, and that I heard some time I don't remember; I wish I could describe it more clearly, but it goes something like this...

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'We are rarely 'in' the present. We are a jumble of past and future, trying to draw on our experience to decide what to do.'

We are rarely 'in' the present. We are a jumble of past and future, trying to draw on our experience to decide what to do, where to go, how to be.

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'The daydreaming time, the hanging out the washing time and the walk to school pick-up time; where inspiration can arrive.'

The planning time, the daydreaming time, the hanging out the washing time and the walk to school pick-up time; for me, these moments are where inspiration can arrive, where connections are made.

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'The definition of 'literary fiction' is strange, vague and controversial, and the term does a poor job, I feel, of linking my novels.'

The definition of 'literary fiction' is strange, vague and controversial, and the term does a poor job, I feel, of linking my novels when they are so diverse in all possible ways.

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'If you are one of those writers that get most of their material in this way — from the here and now — it's perhaps best just to accept your role.'

If you are one of those writers that get most of their material in this way — from the here and now — it's perhaps best just to accept your role. If you are going to write well, you have to be objective,

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'I'll be fairly clear about some major points along the way, but I won't necessarily know how I'm getting from one point to the next. '

I'll have a pretty good idea about where I'm going, and I'll be fairly clear about some major points along the way, but I won't necessarily know how I'm getting from one point to the next.

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