Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.
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You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller - as Dan Brown has demonstrated time and again.
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My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.
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If my children were as unhappy as I was at school, I'd send them somewhere else, but it never occurred to my parents.
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I do believe quite strongly in evil.
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Everywhere, publishers are being squeezed out.
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I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.
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If you are going to be a writer, you have to have self-belief, every writer gets rejections, they say the difference between a successful and unsuccessful writer is an unsuccessful writer gives up, if you keep going you will succeed.
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If you look at Charles Dickens's time, there were so many different levels of society and everybody understood their place in it, it was that complex and simple. I'm not sure we have that now.
