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When I Got To 40 Or So... I Had The Sense When I Looked Back Over My Life I Would Actually See A Mess Of Decisions, A Few Of Which I Had Thought About, Some Of Which I Had Sort Of Stumbled On, And Many That I Had No Control Over Whatsoever.

One Is Not Struck By The Truth Until Prompted Quite Accidentally By Some External Event.

There's A Practical Problem About Time And Energy, And A More Subtle Problem Of What It Does To A Writer's Head, To Continually Analyze Why They Write, Where It All Comes From, Where It's Going To.

I Grew Up In Britain Before It Became A Multicultural Place, So In Many Ways I Have A Nostalgia For An England That's Vanished - The England Of My Childhood Has Actually Disappeared.

I Find Japanese Books Quite Baffling When I Read Them In Translation. It's Only With Haruki Murakami That I Find Japanse Fiction That I Can Understand And Relate To. He's A Very International Writer.