Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.
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I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.
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Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.
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I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.
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A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.
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I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.
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I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didn't want to interfere with it.
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So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.